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I am trying to use BinDeps to download a package dependency. After reading the documentation I am still a little confused over the difference between Sources and Binaries.

Can someone explain how they are different? If I just want to download a .so file from a specified URL, and have it placed in usr/lib, which one should I use?

Thank you.

questionto42
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Mageek
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  • Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5280906/difference-between-groovy-binary-and-source-release. – questionto42 Jul 30 '20 at 09:37

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I believe Sources are for downloading the actual source code of a project which would then use a BuildProcess or SimpleBuild to compile. Binaries is for downloading pre-compiled shared libraries.

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