Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 27-07-2012 07:23, Jens Mueller wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've read several threads that about creating shared libraries. But I > >could not make it work. > >Does anybody know how to create a shared library? I don't care which > >compiler I have to use to accomplish it. > > > >Jens > > > > Well, all three compilers (DMD, GDC, LDC) can create shared > libraries at this point. But DMD doesn't actually ship libphobos2 > (druntime+phobos) as a shared library yet, so this is not going to > work out so well. If, however, you don't use stock libphobos2, you > can pass -shared -fPIC to create a shared library.
But I can build druntime+phobos as shared libraries and then it should work with dmd? > GDC and LDC, as far as I know, can both create shared libraries. GDC > does it with the standard options you'd pass to GCC. LDC's command > line is very similar to DMD's if memory serves. I tried both gdc and ldc but failed. I will write more specifically what I did later. > But (another one!): druntime is not yet ready to handle shared > libraries properly. This means that exceptions thrown across library > boundaries, TLS, etc are not likely to work properly. I think I can avoid all of these limitations. > So, in short: If you're using stock libphobos2, don't bother. If > you're not using stock libphobos2, you can probably trivially create > shared libraries. I see. Then I will try to build a shared libphobos2 first. Many thanks. Jens
