GNU Libtool

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GNU Libtool
Developer(s)	GNU Project[1]
Initial release	July 9, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-07-09)
Stable release	2.5.3 (September 25, 2024; 9 months ago (2024-09-25)[2]) [±]
Repository	git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Library
License	GPLv2
Website	www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

GNU Libtool is a software development tool, part of the GNU build system, consisting of a shell script^[3] created to address the software portability problem when compiling shared libraries from source code. It hides the differences between computing platforms for the commands which compile shared libraries.^[4] It provides a command-line interface that is identical across platforms and it executes the platform's native commands, allowing software authors to offer build support for their code across many diverse platforms such as Linux, BSD variants, Windows (via Cygwin), HP-UX, Solaris (including on SPARC processors), AIX, and IRIX.^[5]