[D-runtime] Time for druntime for Linux64 to default to a shared lib

[Walter Bright]

On 3/13/2013 1:46 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
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> 2013/3/13 Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com <mailto:walter at digitalmars.com>>
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>     Thanks to the efforts of Martin Nowak (dawgfoto) I have been able to build
>     druntime as a shared library under Linux64 and get it to successfully run
>     the test suite.
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>     Therefore, it's now time to make this now the default. This requires some
>     changes to the makefiles for druntime, phobos, and some tweaks to dmd. 
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> It is very nice to hear that problems which you expect to not been fixed soon 
> are actually being fixed.
>
> Currently D object file is statically linked to phobos archive which includes 
> druntime as well. After this changes druntime would be expelled from phobos 
> library, right?

That's right.

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> What about dynamic loading support of user-written modules?
>

This is a necessary step to get there.
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