Can it compile to a dll/so?

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Can it compile to a dll/so?

Zireael07 opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

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Ben L. Titzer · Answer 1 · Fri Nov 25 2022 02:23:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Currently no. The Virgil compiler always produces a statically linked executable. Would your use case need linking a .so?

Zireael07 · Answer 2 · Fri Nov 25 2022 02:58:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes (it's for a preexisting game engine that can use external dll's for scripting languages support. No hurry though, as I don't expect their docs/API to be finalized in a couple months from now

Ben L. Titzer · Answer 3 · Fri Nov 25 2022 10:45:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I don't have the bandwidth on that atm, but off the top of my head, it would require emitting an additional section for the dynamic linker and some internal compiler work to deal with addresses that aren't fixed.