vibe.d 0.7.9 released

[Rob T]

On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 19:23:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2012-11-01 19:53, Rob T wrote:
>
>> I know that the druntime will not link as-is without a rebuild 
>> to enable
>> PIC, so have you found this to be a problem, not using shared 
>> libs, or
>> have you rebuilt druntime to allow for it?
>
> It's not enough to just recompile druntime. It's missing 
> functionality to allow true dynamic linking (i.e. dlopen).

I understand what you are saying, however I was told that you can 
still use shared libs in a limited way. The tricky part is 
knowing what will work and what will not, and why.

I'm used to coding apps that use shared libs, and loadable 
plugins are rather essential to have for some apps, so this is an 
area of interest that maybe I can work on resolving down the 
road. I'm also interested in understanding how people are 
managing without shared libs. It's nice to be able to upgrade 
code by compiling one shared lib and installing it, as opposed to 
rebuilding an entire set of apps that statically link the lib.

--rt