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Re: What command do I use to make a ".a" file?

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From: Zenon Fortuna
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:56
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In article <1992Aug13.175707.12931@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> bill@epnxt.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>I wish to make a library file (somefile.a) encompassing a palette I just  
>designed.  What command do I use?  I could not find anything mentioned in  
>the QA section on this topic.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>		Bill


Read the manual pages for ar(1).

One of the options may look like below:

	ar qv name.a obj1.o obj2.o


In addition to "ar" you may need to use the ranlib(1) for random access
to the library, for example:

	ranlib name.a

and lorder(1) to improve the order of the objects in the
library.


	-Z.
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