Writing and Using Amiga Libraries

Amiga libraries comes in two flavours:

• The “*.library” files are explicitly loaded by the application, not necessarily at start time, and shared OS wide. They are the original standard.
• ELF “*.so” files are Unix/Linux style shared libraries that are supported by AmigaOS4, and that are automatically loaded when the application loads.

Amiga provides auto-open libraries to automatically manage used libraries. It is recommended method use libraries without having to write new code for each library you are using in your application.

TODO: Describe opening and closing libraries, and versioning.

TODO: Describe the various include files for Amiga libraries.

TODO: Write about fd2pragma: http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/fd2pragma.lha