On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Alain Frisch wrote:
Daniel Bünzli wrote:
And on macosx ? It seems here on 10.5.5 that only dynlink.cma and
dynlink.cmi for bytecode get installed. So I guess there's no
support. What about the future ?
Native dynlink used to work on Mac OS X < 10.5 (x86 only). The new
linker in 10.5 does not support linking shared libraries with non-
PIC code. It is still possible to use the old linker, called
ld_classic, but some libraries (like X11) does not work, so this has
been disabled in the configure script.
The clean solution to make natdynlink work on recent Mac OS X systems
(beside convincing Apple to support the old behavior of their linker
in their new implementation) is to change OCaml's x86 backend so
that it produces only PIC code (this has been done for the AMD64
port). I don't think there is currently any plan to work on that.
Ouch, this makes it almost a dead end for us. I can offer some time to
help in this effort, working in the port, or providing feedback. The
native dynlink and toplevel are, at least to me, the killer features
in 3.11, but adding another hole for Mac OS X intel (in addition to
not supporting x86_64) does not seem like the best choice for an
increasingly popular architecture.
Again, thanks for the good work!
Andres
Alain
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