In our previous episode, Luca Olivetti said: > >> If dynamic linking is so great, why do we constant, constantly have these > >> discussions and worse all these illadvised changes? > > > > Because the problem is not in dynamic versus static. > > > > We would have exactly the same discussions if they were statically linked. > > Only it would be 'the app XYZ does not start, fails with library not > > found'. > > which would be a system message. > > Static linking to me means the executable is self-contained and doesn't > rely on any external libraries. > Maybe you mean "static" as in "the executable has the dynamic library > name hardcoded and it will be automatically loaded by ld instead of > dynloading it explicitly"?
Yes. The _dependency_ on the library is static. Not the library itself. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
