Re: dynamic loading in static exe

[Paul Kienzle]

Mumit Khan wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>
>  
>
> > The question is, do we want to support it?  Is there
> > any advantage to static linking under Windows, other
> > than fewer files to work with?
> >    
>
> Doesn't Octave already support it? At least on most Unix'y
> platforms, it uses -rdynamic, the portable name for which
> is -E or --export-dynamic, and does what you expect.
I haven't tried.  Maybe "./configure --disable-shared --enable-dl " will 
do it.

> I don't think there's much advantage in Octave as the
> loadable modules use symbols out of liboctave, libcruft
> and not really from Octave executable itself. One reason
> that the .oct files are so big under Windows is due to
> the lack of shared libstdc++, which is always linked in
> each .oct file.
Is there any reason not to make a shared version of libstdc++?  I see that
the symbols are available in the .a file [of course!] --- I will try 
today to create
the dll with dlltool.

Paul Kienzle
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