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My application links against libsamplerate.a. I am doing this to make distributing the final binary easier.
I am worried that perhaps the code inside the .a file depends on some other libraries I also will need to distribute.
But if it doesn’t I am worried I am bloating up my application too much by including multiple copies of eg. libc.
What exactly will be inside libsamplerate.a? Just libsamperate’s bytecode? Or more?
A static library is just a collection of object files. When you compile a program against a static library, the object code for the functions used by your program is copied from the library into your executable. Linking against a static library will not cause any functions outside that library to be included in your code.