Linux shared libraries - I'm confused

[Gregor Richards]

Tristam MacDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> Nicolai Waniek wrote:
>>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>>> Hmm, well that's a bit of a show-stopper for Linux coding then isn't 
>>>> it. Am I also correct in thinking that GDC does not support D 
>>>> version 2 yet?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I definitley have to say: yes, this is a show-stopper.
>>> I'm still waiting for Walter to make it possible to compiler to an 
>>> .so under
>>> Linux... until that, I stopped using D and concentrating on some 
>>> other projects
>>> w/ python.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Nicolai
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What the hell, people, there's an easy solution: Use GDC.
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> Not quite as easy as it might be. There seem to be far more pitfalls to 
> getting a working shared library under D than under C. In addition, 
> there is still no 2.0 support in GDC.

So long as the standard library is static instead of shared, it will 
always be more complicated. If the standard library was shared, this 
would be simple.

Oh my god, there's STILL no 2.0 support in GDC after it's existed for 
almost TWO MONTHS??!?!?! For shame!!! Yeesh.

> 
> On a realated note, it would be nice to get libgphobos working as a 
> dynamic library with GDC, and shave a few 100K off of my executables...

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=43626

  - Gregor Richards