dynamic/shared libraries for darwin?

Andreas Tobler toa@pop.agri.ch
Sun Feb 16 19:57:00 GMT 2003


Mike Stump wrote:
> On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 08:17  AM, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> 
>> is anybody working on dynamic libraries for darwin?
> 
> 
> C (such as libgcc) might be reasonable. But bear in mind, we have binary 
> compatibilities requirements that span decades, not just one major 
> release.  We avoided shipping C++ libraries in the past as we didn't 
> have the resources and time to devote to the problem.  In fact, we avoid 
> C++ system libraries, as it isn't abi stable.

I remember back a mail from Stan about that.
> 
> I don't think anyone around here it doing much.

Ok, I see. But what would be the steps to start with dynamic libs for 
libffi, boehm, libgcj? In boehm there is some preliminary support in the 
next release. Needs some coding though. For libffi I guess I would be 
the one who should start? And in the same turn also for libgcj.
In these three you don't have compatibilities ;)

Andreas




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