[vlc-devel] Does VLC use .la files during runtime?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Peter Tap <ptrtap at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> When I run a "make install" on VLC build, I noticed that VLC copies .so as well as .la files in the install directory. Are .la files required for VLC to run?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.

.la files are created by libtool and are not needed to run VLC.

> Peter

Kind regards,

Jean-Paul Saman