How to make an executable from a shared library on Mac OSX?

In this post , there are instructions for both PC and UNIX:

"On Windows, for example, issue this command:

mbuild vigenere.cpp libvigenere.lib

On UNIX, you link against a .so file instead of a .lib file:

mbuild vigenere.cpp libvigenere.so

In both cases, mbuild produces an executable called vigenere."

However, when I do this on Mac OSX, I get a .app instead of an executable. Is there any way to get an executable on Mac OSX?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can extract the executable from the .app . A .app is a directory which includes several parts including libraries needed to run the executable.

Note: OS-X cannot compile to .exe (at least not at all easily.)