Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Sorry, I just noticed Richard already answered my question in previous email. So Please ignore my previous email. Thanks. bill yan 已写入: Thanks for the help. Another question, It seems *.cma *.cmxa *.a are all native code libraries, why are there so many suffix? Is there any difference between

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Thanks for the help. Another question, It seems *.cma *.cmxa *.a are all native code libraries, why are there so many suffix? Is there any difference between cma, cmxa and a? Alain Frisch 已写入: bill yan wrote: By my understanding, unlike dlllibrary.so and liblibrary.a give user an option to

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

bill yan wrote: By my understanding, unlike dlllibrary.so and liblibrary.a give user an option to choose compile dynamically or staticly, it seems for library.a, user can only choose static method. Does that mean "compiled native code" can only be staticly linked to user's application? In

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Hi Richard, Thanks a lot for your help on this topic. Now I have a quesiton for the following part: File: library.a and library.cmxa These files go together. The *.a file contains compiled native code in the normal system archive format. The *.cmxa file contains metain

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:24:54PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:17:11AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > It's not particularly well-documented, and it changes a little in > > 3.11, but below is my understanding. There are probably errors in > > what follows. If som

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:17:11AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > It's not particularly well-documented, and it changes a little in > 3.11, but below is my understanding. There are probably errors in > what follows. If someone can correct the errors then I'll publish a > corrected document. Hi Ri

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Richard Jones wrote: File: library.cma -- This is just a set of *.cmo files combined together. Created by: 'ocamlc -a' Used: Same as for module.cmo .cma files also contain extra linking directives like references to C libraries. Files: module.o and module.cmx

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Le 23 sept. 08 à 11:09, bill yan a écrit : And we'd like to know more about the OCaml library architectures, like on what situation dynamic libraries are used, and when static libraries are used, and so on.. This depends on what _you_ want. The tradeoffs of dynamic vs static linking are

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:09:58PM +0800, bill yan wrote: > Thanks a lot for your information. And we'd like to know more about the > OCaml library architectures, like on what situation dynamic libraries > are used, and when static libraries are used, and so on.. Really > appreciate if you could

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Hi Stéphane, Thanks a lot for your information. And we'd like to know more about the OCaml library architectures, like on what situation dynamic libraries are used, and when static libraries are used, and so on.. Really appreciate if you could point me to a document that can help on this topic

Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

bill yan a écrit : I noticed there are some static libraries(.a) installed with ocaml, for example, /usr/lib/ocaml/bigarray.a. What's the purpose of those static libraries? Thanks a lot. They contain (natively) compiled OCaml code. An OCaml library compiled in native mode (usually) consists of

[Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

Hi, I noticed there are some static libraries(.a) installed with ocaml, for example, /usr/lib/ocaml/bigarray.a. What's the purpose of those static libraries? Thanks a lot. Regards, Bill ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.