[dmd-internals] Building Phobos and druntime as a dylib on Mac OS X

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 20 nov 2011, at 20:30, Walter Bright wrote:

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> On 11/20/2011 5:58 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Which would mean that my simple test should fail as well, but it doesn't.
>>>> 2. What should happen to the _tls_beg and _tls_end sections when a library is dynamically loaded, i.e. using dlopen?
>>> I don't really know.
>> No offense, but I thought if anyone would know this it would be you. I don't know if anyone else, like Sean, would know this but I really think we need to figure this out if we want to support dynamic libraries.
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> One reason dmd doesn't support dynlib yet is because I haven't done much research into how dynlib actually works.


Ok, I see. I though that you might know since you have developed a C++ compiler as well. I assume dynamic libraries can be used with DMC. Note that when I say "dylib" I mean the general term "dynamic library" and not the Mac OS X specific implementation.

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/Jacob Carlborg