shared libraries support in gdc and gdc compilation

[Iain Buclaw]

On 16 May 2013 14:56, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:

> Am Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:06 +0200
> schrieb "eles" <eles at eles.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The two quick questions that I have:
> >
> > - does gdc support shared libraries compilation/linking, or it
> > will rely on pending dmd changes to implement that feature?
>
> The dmd backend changes are not needed for gdc, but the druntime
> changes are. So shared libraries will be available sometime after 2.063
> was released and merged into gdc.
>
> > - does the gdc-4.8 (and, while at it, the gdc-4.7) branch receive
> > updates or it is toi be considered as frozen and abandoned?
>
> IIRC the gdc master branch should still work on gcc-4.8 so updating
> should be easy. I want to update gdc-4.7 and gdc-4.8 soon anyway but
> I'll probably wait till gdc passes all unittests


Maybe you could help with the unittests passing also. =)

Note:  libdruntime does not have a check-local, should probably add that in
too for those unittests also.


-- 
Iain Buclaw

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