gdc-4.5 testing

[Neal Becker]

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
>> Does this support building shared libs now (on x86_64)?
>>
> ...
>>> I uploaded the packages to SourceForge, if anyone else
>>> wants to try them... It's made for Fedora 14 (x86_64):
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcgnu/files/gdc/8ac6cb4f40aa/
> 
> You mean in general, or specifics ? (like throwing exceptions
> or allocating memory or whatever...) Was it a problem before ?
> 
> Basic creation seems to work:
> 
> $ gdc -fPIC -o foo.o -c foo.d
> $ gcc -shared -o libfoo.so foo.o
> $ file libfoo.so
> libfoo.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked, not stripped
> 
> AFAIK both shared libraries and x86_64 code have been working
> for years with GDC, even though that is not the case with DMD.
> 
> Phobos is still static, though.
> 
> --anders

But you can't link shared obj to static lib (Phobos), except on i386 - so 
you really can't use shared obj on x86_64 (if you need phobos).