On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 17:42:18 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
Yes. Neither druntime nor the compiler knows whether you're creating an executable. The typical compilation process is to convert D code to an object file containing machine code. Then that object file is linked either inside an executable or inside a shared library. But the machine code is written before the compiler knows where it'll go.
In most cases that is true. But in some cases the compiler do know what will be compiled. DMD has the -shared and -lib flags. They indicate that a shared library or static library should be built.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
