Subject: Re: Static vs Dynamic
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 11:19:46 CDT
Scott,
I'm a newbie at a lot of this, but I think this is a fairly correct
answer:
The dynamic version links dynamically to libraries already installed on
your machine at runtime. (Since I have more experience in Windows, this
is like linking to dlls in Windows.)
The static version was linked (statically) to the necessary libraries at
compile time. All the necessary library routines are included in the
executable file.
Therefore the static version is probably larger than the dynamic version
(longer to download), but may run faster (no dynamic linking at
runtime), and may be more likely to run on your system (not dependant on
external libraries that might not be installed on your system).
Aside: There are other issues that affect whether AbiWord will run
(well) on your system, like access to the necessary fonts. I don't
thing the static version includes fonts (I'm rather sure it doesn't), so
downloading the static version doesn't guarantee no problems.
Hope this helps, and anybody feel free to correct me where I've gone
wrong!
Randy Kramer
Scott Bingman wrote:
>
> Sam TH wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:43:16AM -0400, Scott Bingman
> wrote:
>
> What is the difference between static and dymanic
> versions?
> How do I know which version to choose to download
> on a 26,400 connection?
>
> Probably the dynamic version.
>
> sam th --- sam@uchicago.edu ---
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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>
> I, um, tried the dymanic version and it complained about libstdc++ not
> being able to do something.
> But, uh, the question was the difference between the two. Thanks for
> the reply though.
>
> Scott Bingman
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