Hello There. While developing my little embedded program, I come on the issue of DynaLoader.a. For a bit of background, DynaLoader is the Perl module that enables the loading of shared objects (or DLLs on Windows). The SO are the C parts - XS parts of other modules. However, DynaLoader itself is part perl and part C - who loads the loader? So the C part should be statically linked into Perl. That is why there is a ".a" file - for statically linking. Anyway, on my Windows machine this file does not exist. I wrongly assumed that it's a Windows-verus-Unix thing. But when Shlomi Fish tested the module on a Linux machine, it didn't have this file either. This gave me the conclusion: it's an ActiveState thing. (both of us tested the module on an ActiveState distro) They physically include the C part of DynaLoader inside the libperl.so, so you don't need it anymore. In contrast, the official distro probably statically link it to perl executable. An I right? Wrong? Missed something?
Thanks, Shmuel. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
