Why is libphobos not a shared library?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Jun 14 05:51:54 PDT 2012


On 2012-06-14 14:36, Matthew Caron wrote:
> So, we've been toying with using D on embedded systems, and one of the
> things that struck us as strange is that our emitted binaries don't link
> against a shared libphobos, and indeed, one does not even seem to be
> created when building GDC. Was this a conscious design decision? If so,
> why? Are there any plans to change it to use a shared library?

D does not currently support shared libraries. Although I don't know if 
GDC has done some modifications to support this.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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