Re: [Caml-list] ocamlmklib on Windows

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:37:55PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> There's a mismatch between the ocamlmklib approach and Windows DLLs
> that has prevented me so far from making the former work with the
> latter.
> 
> Basically, ocamlmklib assumes that, from the *same* set of object C
> files, one can build both
> - a static library that can be statically linked with the Caml runtime system
>   and the application, and
> - a shared library (DLL) that can be dynamically linked with the Caml
>   runtime system and the application.

This is surely similar to the need for compiling C object files with
-fPIC/-fpic under Linux if they are to become DLLs. Of course you
/can/ compile without this flag, but as I understand it, if you do so
you get shared libraries which aren't shared very effectively.

Rich.

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