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From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>,
	Caml mailing list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Shared run-time DLLs for commerce
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:03:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4782231A.3050805@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801071130.29025.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

Jon Harrop wrote:
> I would like to commercialize packages like Smoke in compiled form as a shared 
> run-time DLL for other OCaml programmers to use as a library. However, OCaml 
> currently lacks this functionality.

Which functionality do you need, exactly?

What's the advantage of shipping a shared library instead of a static
one (.cmxa/.a/*.cmi)?

The .cmxs files generated by natdynlink are actually dynamic libraries.
Other modules that rely on such a library will also need to be dynlinked.


-- Alain


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07 11:30 Jon Harrop
2008-01-07 13:03 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
     [not found]   ` <200801071503.26977.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
2008-01-07 15:54     ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2008-01-07 17:32       ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-07 19:51       ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-07 21:17         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-01-08 19:39           ` Christophe TROESTLER
2008-01-08 19:42             ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-08 20:18               ` Richard Jones
2008-01-08 16:03         ` Richard Jones
2008-01-08 18:35           ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-09  9:17         ` Alain Frisch

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