Subj : A really stupid Question - how to build a library - oops - clarified
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : D Kat
Date : Tue Oct 05 2004 04:18 pm

I cannot for the life of me find how to build a library in any of my BORLAND
books or the help window....  I used to know how with the old Unix compiler
but have now forgotten.  I'm not even sure I should be building a library vs
another .cpp file that is loaded with the main.cpp file as an .obj.  A
library would be better though for how I want it to look for the people who
will be using it.

What I have are some functions that initialize and use an IO board.  These
functions never change and it is confusing for the students to have to
include them in the programs they have to write.  We have reached critical
mass in our lab and to simplify I want these routines to function much as
any other C function would.  That is make the source code invisible to the
user but the functions themselves easily accessible by just including a
library or linking to an object file.

I can't even remember if I have to have a Main() for a lib....  so that is
where I am at and if someone can point me in the right direction or give me
a simple run down, it would be appreciated.

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