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Where is the standard C library on Mac OS X?

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I am trying to find the standard C library on Mac OS X. I've tried paths like: "/usr/lib/libc.a" or "/usr/lib/libm.a" , but there are no such files on the system. Could you tell me where to find it?

Then I used Terminal at a Linux machine and run such command:

ar t /usr/lib/libc.a 

It returns a list of .o files and those .o files are like these:

svc.o xdr.o ... 

What are the meanings of these files? where to find them?

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Oliver Avatar asked Jun 05 '11 02:06

Oliver


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The standard library is part of libSystem.dylib on OS X.

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Stephen Canon Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 13:10

Stephen Canon