How to do versioning of a shared library in Linux?

Question

Windows provides the resource file for version information for an application and DLL. The resource file includes information like version, copyright and manufacturer.

Answer 1

The short version is that you do this via the soname of the library. Read chapter 3 at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html as well as chapter 3.3 ABI Versioning at http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf