What is the difference between .a and .tar?
- Extension
- .a
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Other
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-sharedlib
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .a on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia