On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:15:26 +0100 > "Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > >> Various projects have worked on 8c to make it generate code for other OSs, >> have any of these resulted in code that could generate a very _very_ simple >> ELF shared library sutiable for linux? >> >> -Steve >> > > The 8l in Go can produce ELF binaries -- it's the linker rather than > the compiler you want to look at for this. Last I heard, Go's 8l wasn't > compatible with Plan 9's 8c, but there's an 8c in Go so that doesn't > matter too much. I'm sure some Go fans want to use system C libraries > by dynamic linking, but I'm not so sure about producing a linkable > library.
Though I cannot find the message now, I recall Russ commenting to someone that the Go linker is not tooled for C ELF binaries; it is very Go specific. Having worked on the NetBSD port and had to spelunk the linker, I believe that to be true. Russ would be the better authority, though. The ?c compilers included with Go are derivatives of Inferno's ?c compilers. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
