“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by hdhrnnrkrkf on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:52PM (#27011368)

Bundling shared libraries is also used in big apps for faster build times and for more physical separation between modules.

Arguably the final release version could be statically linked, but that could be subtly different than what the devs are using.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by liuliu on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:08PM (#27011464)

For these cases, you can just use a modern build system (Bazel) and incremental linker (lld / gold).

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by jayd16 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:37PM (#27011628)

Not everyone is in a position to vendor source for all their dependencies and use a new build system to solve a solved problem.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by jcelerier on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:22AM (#27013315)

I do the same with good ol' cmake, I have a "developer" preset which will build my app with clang, lld, PCH, split into small shared libraries. And a release preset where everything is statically linked

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