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Windows provides the resource file for version information for an application and DLL. The resource file includes information like version, copyright and manufacturer.
We have a shared library and would like to add version information.
How can we do it on Linux with a shared library?
The short version is that you do this via the soname of the library. Read chapter 3 at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html as well as chapter 3.3 ABI Versioning at http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf