What is the difference between .a and .bz2?
- Extension
- .a
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Julian Seward
- Description
- A Static Library, typically denoted by the file extensions `.a` on Unix-like systems or `.lib` on Windows, is a collection of compiled object code modules that are linked into applications during the build process, rather than being loaded dynamically at runtime. This type of library contains a set of routines, external functions and variables, which are resolved and incorporated into the final executable file by a linker.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-sharedlib
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .a on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia