Linux shared libraries - I'm confused

[Tristam MacDonald]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Nicolai Waniek wrote:
>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>> Hmm, well that's a bit of a show-stopper for Linux coding then isn't 
>>> it. Am I also correct in thinking that GDC does not support D version 
>>> 2 yet?
>>>
>>
>> I definitley have to say: yes, this is a show-stopper.
>> I'm still waiting for Walter to make it possible to compiler to an .so 
>> under
>> Linux... until that, I stopped using D and concentrating on some other 
>> projects
>> w/ python.
>>
>> best regards,
>> Nicolai
>>
>>
> 
> What the hell, people, there's an easy solution: Use GDC.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Not quite as easy as it might be. There seem to be far more pitfalls to 
getting a working shared library under D than under C. In addition, 
there is still no 2.0 support in GDC.

On a realated note, it would be nice to get libgphobos working as a 
dynamic library with GDC, and shave a few 100K off of my executables...