Library Naming Conventions

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Poco is running on different platforms with different naming conventions for libraries. This page summarizes how the Poco libraries are named on each platform.

Unices

Some used variables:

• libname is the name of the library (eg. PocoFoundation)
• debug is the debug prefix, (empty "" for release and "d" for debug)
• osarch is 64 for 64bit systems or empty "" for 32 bit systems

Linux and most

Dynamic library

lib<libname><debug><osarch>.so.<soversion>

examples:

• Release libPocoFoundation.so.41
• Debug 64bit libPocoFoundationd64.so.41

Static library

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Mac OS X

Dynamic library

lib<libname>.<soversion>.dylib

examples:

• libPocoFoundation.41.dylib

Static library

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Windows

Windows MSVC

Dynamic DLL

<libname><debug>.dll

examples:

• Debug: PocoFoundationd.dll
• Release: PocoFoundation.dll

Static lib

<libname><static_suffix><debug>.lib

examples:

• MD debug version: PocoFoundationmdd.lib
• MT release version: PocoFoundationmd.lib

Windows Cygwin

Shared library

cyg<libname>-<soversion>.dll

examples:

• cygPocoFoundation-41.dll