On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 08:34:15 UTC, Rob T wrote:
My understanding of dynamic linking and the runtime is based on
this thread
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/dynamic_library_building_and_loading_176983.html
The runtime is not compiled to be sharable, so you cannot link
it to shared libs by defult. However, hacking the gdc build
system allowed me to compile the runtime into a sharable state,
and all seemed well.
However, based on the input from that thread, my understanding
was that the GC would be unreliable at best.
I suppose I could do some tests on it, but tests can only
confirm so much. I'd also have to decipher the runtime source
code to see what the heck it is doing or not.
--rt
You are right that compiling the runtime itself (druntime and
Phobos) as a shared library is not yet fully realized, but that
doesn't stop you from compiling your own libraries and
applications as shared libraries even if they statically link to
the runtime (which is the current default behaviour).
