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What's the purpose of the static library?

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From:	bill yan <Xue-Yang.Yan@S...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Thanks for the help. Another question, It seems *.cma *.cmxa *.a are all 
native code libraries, why are there so many suffix? Is there any 
difference between cma, cmxa and a?

Alain Frisch å·²å†™å…¥:

> bill yan wrote:
>
>> By my understanding, unlike dlllibrary.so and liblibrary.a give user 
>> an option to choose compile dynamically or staticly, it seems for 
>> library.a, user can only choose static method. Does that mean 
>> "compiled native code" can only be staticly linked to user's 
>> application?
>
>
> In OCaml 3.11, it will be possible to link native code (found in 
> library.a or module.o files) into .cmxs files that can be explicitly 
> loaded at runtime (with the same API as for bytecode Dynlink).
>
>
> Alain
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