An .lo file is a libtool object file. Libtool object files (.lo) and Libtool
library files (.la) are scripts that direct libtool how to link the real
object or library files.

As for libcsound.so, that would be the shared library version of the Csound
API in John Ramsdell's build system, which fulfills the goal of building the
Csound kernel as a shared library that is used by all Csound executables,
including the console version of Csound.

The missing winX11.lo evidently reflects a problem in the Makefile.am, which
needs to build the winX11.c file to link with the target that was being
built.

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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:4004] Re: How to configure


> There is only one Makefile visible so I tried make as that will use
> Makefile.  The result is apparently ok until trying to make
> .libs/libcsound.so.0.0.0 (whatever that is for) when it crashes with
> gcc: winX11.lo: No such file or directory
> Strange that it should link it without compiling it.  No idea what a
> .lo file is so I am stuck again.
>
> ==John ffitch
>