Re: [Caml-list] state of native dynlink on os x

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>]

On 8 mars 2012, at 17:25, Jérémie Dimino wrote:

> Le Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:16:30 +0100,
> Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> This error is not Mac-related (I can reproduce it on my Debian).
>> I believe it is a result from the "link-by-need" semantics of the .cma
>> and .cmxa: loader.ml does not explicitly depend on test, so when
>> producing the executable test.cmxa isn't linked (modules included
>> .cm{x,}a, contrarily to .cm{x,o}, are only linked when they are a
>> runtime dependency of one of the other modules).
>> 
>> I can remove the error by either:
>> - compiling to "test.cmx" instead of "test.cmxa"
>> - or adding a dummy dependency in loader.ml:
>>    let () = ignore (Test.f)
> 
> You can also use -linkall for building loader.native. In fact -linkall
> should always be used when you are using dynlink plugins.

That was it. Thanks a lot!

Alan