From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:01:42 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] shared objects in Unix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 29 March 2018 at 17:37, Paul Winalski wrote: > > What is the history of shared objects on Unix? When did they first > appear, and with what object/executable file format? The a.out ZMAGIC > format doesn't seem to support them. I don't recall if COFF does. > IRIX 4 had COFF shared libraries, barely. The OS included libc_s, libgl_s, and maybe one or two other things. They were very difficult and time-consuming to create, and if you had external dependencies then things were even worse. -Henry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: