Re: [Caml-list] Mixed static/dynamic linking of libraries

[ygrek <ygrekheretix@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2 May 2011 16:49:03 +1000
Paul Steckler <steck@stecksoft.com> wrote:

> I want to statically link a library (libsqlite3.a) with my OCaml
> application, but allow other
> libraries to link dynamically. I'm building using ocamlfind on Linux.

The ultimate goal is to get `-Wl,-Bstatic -lsqlite3 -Wl,-Bdynamic` in the
final invocation of gcc when linking your binary (without any other references to
sqlite3 on command-line).

Possible approaches :
1) patch the build system of ocaml-sqlite3 so that it embeds the above flags into cmxa
2) insert linker instructions with -ccopt's around the reference to sqlite3.cmxa when linking your application - IIRC this
didn't work for me because ocamlopt reorders command-line arguments when passing them to gcc in some incomprehensible way.
3) use -noautolink and specify the above flags as single -ccopt (and do this for all cma's with embedded options).

(1) looks most simple to me and ideally ocamlopt could allow embedding several sets of options into cma and choosing
them at final link with some option/tags, then all libraries could easily embed two command-lines - for static and dynamic linking.

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 ygrek
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