Link static Informix general libraries

Beginning with Informix® Client Software Development Kit version 3.0, static versions of HCL Informix general libraries are available on Windows™ and UNIX™ operating systems.

The static Informix general libraries retain their pre-version 7.2 names. Static-library names have the following formats:
  • A non-thread-safe static Informix general library has a name of the form libxxx.a.
  • A thread-safe static Informix general library has a name of the form libthxxx.a.
In these static-library names, xxx identifies the particular static Informix general library. With version 7.2 and later, the static and thread-safe static Informix general libraries use names of this format as their actual names. The following sample output shows the actual names for the libos static (libos.a) and thread-safe static (libthos.a) libraries: 
% cd $INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql
% ls -l lib*os.a
-rw-r--r--  1 informix   145424 Nov 8 01:40 libos.a
-rw-r--r--  1 informix   168422 Nov 8 01:40 libthos.a

The esql command links the code that is associated with the actual names of the static Informix general libraries into the Informix ESQL/C application. At run time, your Informix ESQL/C program can access these Informix general-library functions directly from its executable file.