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All you need to know about C Static libraries

Khalil on September 04, 2020

Introduction Before starting to talk about the subject matter, let us take a brief look at the compilation phases of a C program. There...

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yacoubou • Oct 2 '22

Good content thank

Olimpio • Oct 2 '22

Thanks for this amazing article

Hamzat Abdul-muizz • Sep 30 '22

Thanks so much well detailed explanation

Dohou Daniel • May 1 '23

I read this in 2022, and came back for it in 2023.
That is to make you understand that this was really helpful, and also a well-detailed explanation.
Thank you 💚.

Endurance Edward • Aug 4 '23

Succinct 👌

Gabriel Effangha • Sep 6 '23

I understand static libraries now, thanks to you.

ONDO ABAGHE Rooly Marvin • Oct 10 '22

The content is so clear and concise, thanks a lot

Otieno Onyango • Apr 9 '23

Could you please say something about the content of the add.c and the mul.c, for a beginner like me, that is. Otherwise, great content here

Khalil • Apr 9 '23

As mentioned above, add.c and mul.c are files that contain a single function that makes the addition or the multiplication of two integer values. You can think of them as follow:

/* add.c */
int add(int a, int b) { return a + b; }

/* mul.c */
int mul(int a, int b) { return a * b; }

I hope this answers your question :)

Shamsuddeen Abdullahi • Feb 27 '24

I am a beginner too. But I found it the hard way, weldone!!!

XNFTS_Chuks💎 • Jul 23 '22

I really learned and enjoyed a lot of ideas shared here thanks so much

Hayatudeen Abdulrahman • Jun 27 '22

Thank you for this. I really needed it for my project

Demmythetechie • Nov 4 '22

Nice article bro, shows you are very good at what you do.
Thanks for the help, I understood in a Jiffy.

Onwuka Chukwuebuka Nathan • Nov 8 '22

Nice 👍

Hossam Ayman • Jan 6 '23

Thank you. That was an amazing explanation.

Esogibe Chidubem Andrew • Jan 6 '23

Great explanation. Just cleared my little confusion with ease. Thanks Dev.

Bereket-Melese • Mar 17 '23

Concise and to the Point. Keep up the good work.

Itumeleng-Malgas • Apr 7 '23

Awesome stuff

David.n • Apr 9 '23

This article covers every important detail on static libraries and simplifies these concepts. Impressive material

Code warrior • Apr 10 '23

Thank you for this amazing post.May you please do one for Dynamic libraires?

pweety_aries • Oct 1 '22

thanks …. it well explanatory

Chukwuemeka Ejiofor • Sep 30 '22

This was really insightful. Thanks 👍

pentacular • Sep 4 '20

I think it is worth noting that libraries are not part of the C language.

Which means that they are all implementation features and vary between compiler and system.

The description of libraries here seems to be for gcc libraries under linux?

Khalil • Sep 4 '20

Yes, you're right. The C libraries aren't part of the language.
It slipped my mind. Maybe I'll add it. Thanks for your feedback.

And yes I've used the GCC compiler on Linux. but the same principle applies to other platforms.

pentacular • Sep 4 '20

You're welcome.

Solomon Ovie Okomowho • Oct 27 '23 • Edited

As a beginner learning C programming, I found this article quite enlightening. It was direct and gave the necessary information needed to start practising making use of libraries straight away. Thank you.

amr89mohamed • Nov 17 '23

great they give me a lot of materials on my course to understand the static libraries but in the end I understand nothing, I found your article on Google and it's really good, I get the idea and understand what to do, thanks

Valeryio • Oct 2 '23

Succint, but, what is the difference between libname, and the module add.c and mul.c ?
Here you include "header.h", and without libname.a, it will also compile and work.

Could you give me more explanations, please?