Shared Libraries [was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release]

[Walter Bright]

On 1/7/2013 4:41 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 10:14:54 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> Though I believe it will probably fail with older OS X versions which don't
>> have TLS support.
>
> Yes, it is not supported by linker and dyld versions shipping with OS X 10.7.
> This is also the reason why LDC 2 only supports OS X 10.7+, as LLVM does not
> implement a workaround for older versions (although implementing one up to the
> point where it is good enough for D should be doable without too much effort).

It's pretty clear where we'll be going with this. We'll be abandoning OS X 
versions older than 10.7.

I don't know enough about the Mac ecosystem to know when we can pull the plug on 
that.