Yeah, that's what someone had mentioned on another forum. I had also
mentioned there that passing the -ccopt -shared works, and it's my current
plan of attack. I wish I could get ride of -cc, but it's necessary for
x-compiling and (semi-necessary) for mpi.

Thanks for your help though.


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:

> On 12/08/2011 02:11 PM, Nicholas Lucaroni wrote:
> > From ocamlbuild, possibly from my plugin for it, but I should be able to
> > set cc and shared? They don't seem like mutually exclusive options.
>
> It works if you add -cc "gcc -shared", or -ccopt -shared. Looking at
> call_linker in utils/ccomp.ml, it seems to be by design: the command to
> link executables and the command to link plugins are two different
> variables, that are both overridden by the -cc option.
>
> I suggest you to add -ccopt -shared when linking a plugin in your
> myocamlbuild.ml (or not using -cc at all).
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Stéphane
>