[CMake] *.so on Mac

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 06:49:45 +0200, Michael Wild said:

>> Shouldn't dynamic libraries on Mac have "dylib" as their extension? 
>>
>> Why does MyLib have an extension "so" when I use add_library(MyLib MODULE)?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Yifei
>
>Because a MODULE is normally a "plugin" library, and these 
>traditionally have the extension .so on Mac.

Do they?

I just searched all of /System and the only .so I find are in Python.framework.  I've been using Macs since the early 90s, I don't recall any tradition of using .so for anything, but could be wrong...

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