2.5 Library Names

Tools.h++ Professional C++ libraries for Windows use this encoding scheme:

<mnemonic><buildtype>.<ext>

Tools.h++ Professional C++ libraries for Unix use this encoding scheme:

lib<mnemonic><buildtype>.<ext>

Both of these schemes are explained in Table 7.

Table 7 -- Library name encoding

Code	Meaning
`lib`	Indicates that this is a library. (Unix only.)
`<mnemonic>`	The mnemonic from one of the three C++ libraries that constitute Tools.h++ Professional: `net`, `int`, or `orb`.
`<buildtype>`	Indicates the build type, as explained in Section 2.6.
`<ext>`	Indicates the extension. For Windows static libraries and `DLL` import libraries, the extension is `lib`. For Windows `DLL`s, the extension is `dll`. For Unix, the extension naming convention varies from one platform to another. Here are some possible values: `.a` = static library (`ns.a` for AIX) `.so`, `.sl`, etc. = shared library, depending upon the platform Note: Always use the library binding character contained within the `<buildtype>` to determine whether a library is static or shared.

For example, if you use a Unix compiler to build multithreaded, static libraries that provide symbolic debugging and assertions, the resulting library names are:

libnet7s.a
libint7s.a
liborb7s.a

The same source built on MSVC on Windows NT or Windows 95 creates libraries named:

net7s.lib
int7s.lib
orb7s.lib