[Freeciv-Dev] Re: split server into library and main

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point - my experience is solely with Linux - so that was what I was
basing my speculation on... it would be certainly very useful, but you are
right that it would be hard to implement across many platforms.

But isn't that partly true for a static library also?


SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Falk Hueffner [mailto:falk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Falk Hueffner
> Sent: 10 August 2000 23:21
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> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: split server into library and main
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> "SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > What an eminently good idea. What about a .so version as well?
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> Making shared libraries is an eminently difficult task, since it's
> different on about every platform. "libtool" helps a bit, but has it's
> drawbacks, and generally makes the build process more complicated, so
> I think the gain is far too small to be worth the trouble.
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>       Falk
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