[ale] diff between .a and .so files?

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

Calling on the Linux c experts...

I have an app that expects a shared lib in libfilename.so.  I don't have
the .so on my machine, but I do have a libfilename.a.

Can someone explain the difference?

Thanks!
John




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