Are homebrew packages static libraries or dynamic?-CodePudding

I was using the SDL2 library I installed with homebrew. I was just wondering if the libraries I linked were statistic or dynamic and how to tell with these package managers.

CodePudding user response：

Homebrew installs both libraries for dynamic and static linkage. It installs also the useful utility sdl2-config. Run

sdl2-config --cflags --static-libs

--cflags Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program or library that uses SDL.
--static-libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to statically link a program that uses SDL.

If you have not linked SDL like --static-libs showed, you have linked the shared SDL library.

FYI A library can not be dynamic, it is either a shared or a static library, for either dynamic (at runtime) or static (at compile time) link respectively.