Does LDC have a way to allow static linking libphobos and druntime while dynamically linking everything else? If I use the static flag it starts trying to link everything statically whereas I would like to be selective about it.

The reason I'm looking for this is some Linux distributions, such as Fedora, have really outdated versions of LDC shared libraries which are not compatible with newer versions of the compiler. DMD does what I want but if possible I'd prefer to use LDC for release binaries.

On 03/18/2017 04:47 PM, Gerald wrote:
> Does LDC have a way to allow static linking libphobos and druntime while
> dynamically linking everything else? If I use the static flag it starts
> trying to link everything statically whereas I would like to be
> selective about it.
>
> The reason I'm looking for this is some Linux distributions, such as
> Fedora, have really outdated versions of LDC shared libraries which are
> not compatible with newer versions of the compiler. DMD does what I want
> but if possible I'd prefer to use LDC for release binaries.

You should be able to specify them using `-defaultlib`

 -defaultlib=:libphobos2.a,:libdruntime.a

With the colon at the start of the library name ld will use the library name as is and won't add a lib prefix and an extension.

-- 
Mike Wey

On Saturday, 18 March 2017 at 21:42:29 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
> You should be able to specify them using `-defaultlib`
>
>  -defaultlib=:libphobos2.a,:libdruntime.a
>
> With the colon at the start of the library name ld will use the library name as is and won't add a lib prefix and an extension.

Thanks as always Mike, I just had to change the names to append -ldc to them and it worked great.

On Saturday, 18 March 2017 at 22:20:16 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 March 2017 at 21:42:29 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
>> You should be able to specify them using `-defaultlib`
>>
>>  -defaultlib=:libphobos2.a,:libdruntime.a
>>
>> With the colon at the start of the library name ld will use the library name as is and won't add a lib prefix and an extension.
>
> Thanks as always Mike, I just had to change the names to append -ldc to them and it worked great.

Ah! It's comma-separated! That explains why this didn't work for me when I tried it last time ^^