RE: cvs commit: fptools/mk target.mk package.mkfptools/ghc/lib/compat Makefile fptools/ghc/compiler/mainPackages.lhs DriverPipeline.hs fptools/ghc/compiler/ghci Linker.lhs

On 19 January 2005 04:56, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:

>> Why the _dyn suffix, by the way?
> 
> So that ghc without the -dynamic flag can still link to the static
> libraries. If the dynamic library for libHSbase.a was called just
> libHSbase.dylib, it would always be used by ld, and we couldn't build
> static executables any more.
> Also, if DLL support is revived for our poor friends who are stuck
> with Windows, they will have "import libraries" with the suffix .a
> for the DLLs, which still need to be distinguished from the static
> libraries. So the static library would be libHSbase.a, the import
> library would be libHSbase_dyn.a and the DLL would be HSbase_dyn.dll.

I wondered the same thing, thanks for the explanation.  Could you paste
this paragraph in as a comment at some appropriate place?

Cheers,
	Simon