From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:55:14 +1100 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] another type of static linking: send all the shared libraries with the program! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e644fe4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 and it will be an unaswered question. o fortuna, velut luna, statu variabil= is. brucee On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Jeff Sickel wrot= e: > > On Nov 13, 2010, at 5:14 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > >> Isn't this what Apple does recommend you do with application bundles? = =A0Ship >> the whole directory (.app) with all requisite frameworks and libs? > > That's the recommended approach for certain types of distributions. =A0Th= e alternative approach is to not do shared/dynamic libraries in the code yo= u ship. =A0That way the only dynamically linked code is that used in the sy= stem frameworks. =A0Many folks also find that their applications launch fas= ter when not traversing all sorts of dyldhell. > > There's still the open-ended question of bundles of loadable modules, if = you need them. > > -jas > > >