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New issue 127 by damien.c...@gmail.com: Generate libraries with the .so extension http://code.google.com/p/cog/issues/detail?id=127
Currently the build script generates vm-source-ALSA, vm-display-X11 and other files like this without any extension. However, all the unix systems I've heard of consider the extension as standard. Wikipedia says " In Unix-like operating systems using ELF, dynamically-loaded shared libraries can be identified by the filename suffix .so (shared object)." Solaris also uses this extension http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5165/ld.so.1-1.html. There is also this page which says that "In most modern Unix-like systems [...] the filenames always start with lib, and end with .a (archive, static library) or .so (shared object, dynamically linked library)". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computing%29#File_naming
So I guess the vm-* files must have the .so extension. Currently, I have to maintain a script that adds these extensions because they are required by the tools I use: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm-ubuntu/blob/master/debian/rules