[dmd-internals] Making druntime a shared library on linux

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, March 25, 2013 12:46:46 Walter Bright wrote:
> I couldn't find a linker flag to prefer libdruntime.so over libdruntime.a,
> or vice versa, so I named the shared library libdruntimeso.so. Ugh. If
> there's a better way, please let me know.

I believe that the .so is preferred over the .a so that you normally give the 
.a version explicitly if you want to link against it, but it looks like 
there's also a -Bstatic flag to tell it to link against the static version.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6578484/telling-gcc-directly-to-link-a-library-statically

- Jonathan M Davis