What are the differences between Shared and Dynamic libraries?

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Chethan

  • Sep 16th, 2005
 

Shared libraries are loaded into memory before compilation,during parsing whereas dynamic libraries are loaded during compilation time itself.

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dinesh

  • Apr 26th, 2006
 

: There are two ways in which a library is shared. Static and dynamic 

In statically linked library the code of library is referenced at compile time and the result executable will be bigger.

I dynamically linked libraries the code of library is referenced at run time and resulting executable will be smaller. But drwaback is that at run time this will need the library to reference the library related symbols.

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malathi

  • May 27th, 2006
 

system allow us to create and use two kinds of libraries - static libraries and shared (or dynamic) libraries.shared and dynamic libraries are one and the same. the object files from the dynamic(shared ) library are not inserted into the executable file unlike static lib...

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