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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:24:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BBC08CA6-8BE7-4165-82EE-DFDF33ECF3B1@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D8B266.4000906@sun.com>


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 mostly as in any other language.

> Really appreciate if you could point me to a document that can help  
> on this topic.

o Part III of the manual (especially ocamlc ocamlopt and interfacing  
with C). http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/
o Chapter 7 and 12 of the Oreilly book http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html

Best,

Daniel


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-23 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-22  3:36 bill yan
2008-09-22  9:35 ` [Caml-list] " Stéphane Glondu
2008-09-23  9:09   ` bill yan
2008-09-23 10:17     ` Richard Jones
2008-09-23 11:42       ` Alain Frisch
2008-09-23 12:49       ` Chris Conway
2008-09-24 11:24       ` [Caml-list] " Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-24 17:28         ` Richard Jones
2008-09-24 20:09       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-09-25 10:58       ` [Caml-list] " bill yan
2008-09-25 11:11         ` Alain Frisch
2008-10-08  3:20           ` bill yan
2008-10-08  3:29             ` bill yan
2008-09-23 10:24     ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]

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