An API refers to the rules and guidelines and protocols etc that are set forth by a library. In other words, a library has an API. So API is really more of a description of a library, whereas a library is an actual physical chunk of code (well, as physical as code gets).
The easy way to think about this is an API is a specification and the library is an implementation. One API can have many, many implementations. There is Windows and there is WINE for instance. Both implement the Windows GUI APIs.
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i would prefer you link this explanation to the source. thanks.
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