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Re: Difference in libcurl.so.3 and libcurl.so.4

From: Scoped Ptr <scoped.ptr_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:32:58 -0700

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the reply. Say if I use libcurl.so.4 (latest) on my build system
and I try to run the application on a machine which still has only
libcurl.so.3. In that case it will be necessary to update libcurl to so.4 on
the user system to successfully run the application ?

Thanks

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Scoped Ptr wrote:
>
> Can anbody tell me the major changes in libcurl.so.3 and libcurl.so.4 ?
>>
>
> The last libcurl.so.3 was 7.15.5. All release since with all their changes
> have been in the number 4. You can check the list of changes yourself:
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html#7_15_5
>
> I see both on my system and which one to choose?
>>
>
> The most recent one => the highest number.
>
> I also see libcurl-gnutls.so.[3,4] and want to know to which library will
>> my application be linking when I link to libcurl dynamically?
>>
>
> It depends on what lib you tell the linker to use at link-time and what
> libs you provide with that name at run-time.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>
Received on 2008-08-12