libphobos.so libdruntime.so

[Bernard Helyer]

On Sunday, 5 February 2012 at 03:58:03 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
>Static linking has its advantages too, but as far as phobos and 
>druntime  are concerned, dynamic linking would be way way better.

Bollocks. In the general case (which is silly to talk about, I'll 
admit) I'd take static linking every time. Sure, it increases the 
size of the executable, but if I'm distributing my app, I'm 
almost certainly distributing libphobos.so with it, so that's 
moot.

As has been said, Phobos/druntime changes often enough that 
relying on it being present on the users system is ridiculous.

This isn't to say being able to dynamically link Phobos and 
druntime is undesirable, it isn't. But even if it were an option, 
I would still statically link them to my apps.