libgl.a questions

[james cerrato]

We ship a graphics product to clients using many different SGI machines,
running diffent releases of IRIX.  In order to deliver the product without
first having built the executable on each configuration [Hardware/OS] first,
we just ship a library of our object files.  Then our installation script
links our library with -lgl at the client's machine.  Will this strategy
work even on machines that do not have installed the development option?

Also if anyone can give me information on how to use shared libraries,
and what the benefits are, or a pointer to where to find information about
them in the manuals it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

James Cerrato
Associative Design Technology
Westboro MA

adt!james at bu.edu

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