In the previous installment a skeleton Autotools project was created. In this installment the usage of libraries for the application code will be added. I like putting my application data into libraries as it makes it more convenient to reuse the code, e.g. when doing unit testing (which will be shown in a later installment).

In this installment a skeleton setup for handling libraries using Libtool will be presented. At the end the methods to link against the static or dynamic libraries will be shown. The created library will be a very trivial one but the created skeleton should be enough to expand on this.
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