Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm curious how much of the "compile twice" situation for static and
> dynamic libraries could actually be shared.


Probably none; on most platforms you're actually generating different code
(dynamic libraries require generation of position-independent code).  That
said, the PPC ABI uses position-independent code even for static libraries
and I think Apple decided to go that route on Intel as well rather than
change their build system ... but if you do this then linking to other
platform-native libraries may be more difficult.  Not a problem for Apple
since they control the ABI, but not something ghc can force on libc or
random libraries someone might want to use FFI with.

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