Re: cross-platform shlibs, sans libtool

From: Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 00:59:32 +0000

>So I've invested enough to post a new patch that:
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>- Produces pretty much unchanged results on NetBSD (and probably Linux)
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>- Produces shlibs on macOS (the latest Sequoia/aarch64 and also Tiger/powerpc) that look to my eyes like what libtool would make
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>- Doesn't use libtool
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>- Trades away some GNU Make declarative expressiveness in exchange for zeal, but maybe leaves enough hints to restore the expressiveness
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>On NetBSD I've verified that skalibs can be dynamically linked by s6-dns. I ran out of steam getting s6-dns to build macOS dylibs, but I bet it'd work if someone did (and am, of course, happy to test).

  That's awesome, thanks a lot! I'll take a look and see if I can add
some of the declarative expressiveness back. 😄

--
  Laurent
Received on Tue May 20 2025 - 02:59:32 CEST

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