On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:06:48 +0000, Dejan Lekic wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:28:44 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> On 14 June 2012 14:18, Matthew Caron <matt.ca...@redlion.net> wrote: >>> On 06/14/2012 09:08 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Matthew, >>>> >>>> This is a pet peeve with us at the moment. Yes, I can produce a >>>> shared libphobos for you, but the default runtime implementation does >>>> not support it, and the current workaround is specific to Linux >>>> systems only - possibly other related POSIX systems too, so long as >>>> /proc/self/maps exists on the system. >>>> >>>> Regards >>> >>> >>> I am not professing to have copious amounts of time, but how might I >>> be able to help, even if it is just to test things? >>> >>> I have, at my disposal, the standard complement of x86 Linux boxen, as >>> well as a variety of ARM-ish processors (hence my interest in cross >>> compiling D), ranging from ARM9 (armv5t) up to Cortex-A8. >>> >>> If adoption of D at my company proceeds, this will become more of a >>> hot-button issue because demand for it will increase. As such, I might >>> be able to actually devote some on the clock engineering time to it, >>> rather than doing it in my spare time. As of right now, it is termed >>> "not for production use", because D and GDC are both fairly new. (Yes, >>> I know both D2 and GDC are both over 5 years old, but we're that >>> conservative.). The crux of the issue is that, when you're trying to >>> cram as much as you can into 16MB of NAND, shared libraries are your >>> best friend. >>> >>> >>> >> If the idea is to cram as much into 16MB of NAND, I would suggest that >> you avoid building libphobos at all, and just have the libdruntime >> library. I will need to add this as a switch to the build for you. If >> you need any guidance on building as a shared library, I'll be >> available on IRC from around 7.30pm GMT+0 time. Either on Freenode or >> OFTC in #d and #d.gdc. >> >> >> Regards > > I wish I could do that with DMD... DMD has -defaultlib=<name> but if > developer leaves <name> to be empty compilation will fail.
Actually, after some chat on IRC, thanks to Daniel, I've found out that it is possible to do it with -defaultlib=druntime , but then you must have libdruntime.a installed (which is not the case if developer installed packaged dmd because druntime is inside phobos). -- Dejan Lekic mailto:dejan.lekic(a)gmail.com http://dejan.lekic.org
