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

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Wed Mar 13 11:28:31 PDT 2013


On 3/13/2013 10:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> This is absolutely fantastic, many thanks to everyone involved and Martin in 
> particular!
>
> One question - shouldn't we preserve the current default (static linking 
> throughout)? Last thing I want is to hear naysayers clamoring how we threw 
> them in DLL hell whereas other languages (which don't support DLLs in the 
> first place) don't.
>
> Dynamic linking is a great option and possibly the best way going forward, but 
> at least for the time being let's not make it the default until we make it 
> rock solid.

I don't think we can make it rock solid until we make it the default!



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