Re: Building dynamic libraries?

[Nelson Minar]

>Does Swarm provide support for building dynamically-linked libraries (i.e.
>libxxx.so files rather than static libxxx.a files?)

Last I checked, no. I didn't put support in the Swarm Makefiles myself
because every OS has a different way to make shared libraries, so it's
a hassle to do "right". Shared libraries do work for GNU ObjC, though,
at least under Linux. Hack away! It's a big win: I once got heatbugs
down to 4k of its own executable, with really nice fast link time.

It might also make sense to make one big libswarm.a instead of lots of
little libraries. Or at least, to roll in all the required ones
(everything but space?) There's no executable size overhead for
linking more than you need to - only some link time.

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