Phobos still being statically linked in?

Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Oct 20 02:27:29 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 16:02:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-10-17 13:28, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> Yes, it's still linked statically by default, at least with 
>> DMD. I don't
>> know why this wasn't changed yet
>
> 1. It makes it easier to distribute binaries since most 
> computers won't have a Phobos and druntime installed
It's not too complicated to deliver those two files in addition 
to the executable
>
> 2. There's no guaranteed ABI compatibly between different 
> release of D
That it the really bad part - if I were to ship the librarys only 
once, I would prefer it. But pretty much every time? NO.



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