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Like Windows’ API are in the kernel.dll,user32.dll,etc., are GNOME API stored in *.so files?
If so, where are they? Can I use them as a shared library in my program?
If not, what are they?
.so are “Shared Objects” as known as dynamic libraries, different from “.a” that are static libraries.
I think in windows system there are only .dll (dynamically linked libraries).
Gnome APIs, since gnome is only a desktop environment, which makes use of other softwares elements like Nautilus (its window manager) etc. have exectuables and libraries (i suppose mixed betwwen static and dynamic.
Moreover it will use other libraries like libpng or libjpeg for images, libalsa for sound etc. etc.
and GTK (gnome toolkit) for the GUI
Finally more of them probably are in /usr/lib /usr/share/lib /usr/X11/lib … and similar paths