Compile a .so

[Frits van Bommel]

nobody at nowhere.nonet wrote:
> Sebastian <sebastian.faltoni at gmail.com> spewed this unto the Network: 
>> hi, is possibile to compile .so for linux and for mac, with D? if
>> true how i can do that?  thanks
> 
> This isn't handled by a compiler, but the linker, ld. First,

Are you sure? Shouldn't the compiler generate position-independent code? 
(That's what I seem to remember and will assume for the rest of the 
code. It that's not true, please ignore the rest of this post :) )

> you get the D compiler to generate an .o file. The "-c" option
> accomplishes this in both the DMD and GDC compilers:
> 
> 	# Creates foo.o
> 	gdc -c foo.d

This generates relocatable code, not position-independent code. For 
that, you need to specify -fpic or -fPIC (for GDC, DMD can't do this IIRC).

> Then, the "ld" command line is as follows:
> 
> 	ld -shared foo.o -o foo.so

This would be correct if foo.o contained position-independent code.