From henigan@quando.quantum.de Tue Nov 10 05:37:43 1992 Received: from calvin.sfasu.edu by umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (5.61.jnf/920629) on Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:37:37 -0600 id AA03789 with SMTP Received: from mail.Germany.EU.net by calvin.sfasu.EDU with SMTP (5.59/25-eef) id AA10573; Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:21:38 CST Return-Path: Received: from quando by mail.Germany.EU.net with UUCP (5.65c/EUnetD-2.2.1.c) via EUnet for calvin.sfasu.edu id hU18226; Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:17:54 +0100 From: henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan) Received: by quando.quantum.de (5.51/QUANDO-X.3.3) id AA07145; Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:10:26 +0100 Message-Id: <9211101010.AA07145@quando.quantum.de> Subject: Re: Custom Lib To: BRIANLEE@zodiac.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:10:25 MET Cc: hyperc-l@calvin.sfasu.edu (HyperC mailing list) In-Reply-To: <01GQYUCD6BTWBQ2JOU@zodiac.rutgers.edu>; from "BRIANLEE@zodiac.rutgers.edu" at Nov 10, 92 12:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R Hi, >Another neophyte question: how does one make custom libraries? Why >would I want to? The documentation is less than helpful. Thanks again... Someone else can answer the first part for you, it's really quite easy. To the question why..... A library is one file that contains one or more object files in it, an object file contains one or more functions. This enables you to write a set of functions for matrix calculation for example. You write one or more functions per source/object file and then to put all the object files in one library file and to put this in the HyperC lib directory. When a program is written that uses some of these functions, when it is linked you only need to specify the library name, and the linker looks in the library and loads & links the object modules it needs. It makes life a lot easier. I seem to remember that the command sym lists the symbols in a library, it also lists them in a program if they are still there. -- Kevin Henigan. UUCP: {backbone}!unido!quando!henigan OR henigan@quando.uucp Quantum GmbH Bitnet: henigan%quando@UNIDO(.bitnet) Dortmund internet: henigan@quantum.de, or henigan@quando.quantum.de Germany advert : PEDIGREE - the only genealogy IIGS prog with a GUI