Iain Buclaw wrote:
AFAIK both shared libraries and x86_64 code have been working
for years with GDC, even though that is not the case with DMD.
But you can't link shared obj to static lib (Phobos), except on i386 - so
you really can't use shared obj on x86_64 (if you need phobos).
As far as I'm aware, the #1 reason why (for GDC, at least) Phobos can't be
compiled as shared is because of inline asm clobbering the PIC register (EBX on
i386). Because we're not smart enough (LDC likely suffers from this also), in
some instances EBX can be wrongly marked as being clobbered too.
Ah, OK. That sounds like a different problem than "can't link"...
Does this also affect other shared libraries, without inline asm ?
Compiling Phobos as a shared library also seems to be a somewhat
different issue from compiling user D code as a shared library.
--anders
