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To: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML)
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading and building of shared libraries
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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>
Date: 16 Jan 2000 19:59:58 -0800
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>>>>> "skaller" == skaller  <skaller@maxtal.com.au> writes:

skaller> my question is, how to tell ocaml to link a shared library,
skaller> rather than a main executable.  How do I do this? If not, can
skaller> a way be devised to tell ocamlopt to do it? Or is there a
skaller> reasone it isn't possible?

I would try something like (if gcc is your C compiler)

ocamlopt -ccopt -shared -o foobar.so foo.cmx bar.cmx

It might even work; totally untested, though, of course.

-- 
Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
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