[mercury-users] shared libraries

[Michael Day]

> Currently the default on Linux is to use static libraries rather than
> shared libraries.  (It ought to be the other way round, but unfortunately
> implementing that is a little tricky and we haven't done it yet.)
> So you to use shared libraries on Linux, you need to use
> `mmc --pic-reg --link-flags --shared', or put `MGNUCFLAGS=--pic-reg'
> and `MLFLAGS=--shared' in your Mmakefile.

Ah perfect! Thank you very much.

> See README.Linux for details.

<Coughs embarrassedly and reads manual>

Hmm, so there's a performance hit for using shared libraries on Linux,
because it requires the compiler to generate position independent code?
That's unfortunate. Is it less of an issue in hlc grade?

Michael


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