What is the difference between .a and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .a
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Bzip2
- 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.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-sharedlib
- application/x-bzip2
- Wikipedia
- .a on Wikipedia
- .tbz2 on Wikipedia