difference between libevent and libevent-dev

Question

I am wondering as to what are the differences between libevent and libevent-dev. So, I have installed libevent from source (stable version 2.0.21) - and I am not really able to find the sources for libevent-dev. Is libevent-dev not a separate package? Do I not need libevent-dev if I have installed libevent stable from source? Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

I am assuming you refer to the Debian packages. All -dev packages in debian provide the headers and static libraries (.a) needed to compile a program against the corresponding library. while the non -dev package provides the dynamic libraries (*.so), the man pages and so on.