12.1 The C Libraries

The Solaris operating system comes with several libraries installed in /usr/lib. Most of these libraries have a C interface. Of these, the libc and libm, libraries are linked by the CC driver by default. The library libthread is linked if you use the–mt option. To link any other system library, use the appropriate –l option at link time. For example, to link the libdemangle library, pass –ldemangle on the CC command line at link time:

example% CC text.c -ldemangle

The C++ compiler has its own runtime support libraries. All C++ applications are linked to these libraries by the CC driver. The C++ compiler also comes with several other useful libraries, as explained in the following section.