Re: Regarding the ".a" files

Thanks for the help.  Does that mean once OCaml support dynamically 
linking for native code, lablgtk will  have a new version to support 
dynamic library for native code also?


Erik de Castro Lopo ???:

>bill yan wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I only see ".a" library files for lablgtk2. Does that mean user only can
>>staticly link their programs to those libraries? If like that, when
>>lablgtk2 will support dynamically linking? Thanks in advance.
>>    
>>
>
>Ocaml does not currently support dynamic linking of Ocaml code
>but I understand this is coming in version 3.11.
>
>The ".a" libraries you see for liblgtk2 are the Ocaml parts of
>the bindings to libgtk2 etc. The C parts of the underlying libraries
>can still be dynamically linked.
>
>For instance, ldd for an application I've written looks like this:
>
>        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f58000)
>        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7bc4000)
>        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b40000)
>        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb7b25000)
>        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b0d000)
>        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7ae8000)
>        libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb7adf000)
>        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7ab5000)
>        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7aa7000)
>        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7a9e000)
>        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb7a9b000)
>        libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb7a93000)
>        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7a8d000)
>        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb7a84000)
>        libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb7a81000)
>        libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb7a7d000)
>        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb7a40000)
>        libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb79de000)
>        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb78f7000)
>        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb78f2000)
>        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb78b6000)
>        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb78b1000)
>        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78ad000)
>        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb77fc000)
>        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb76ad000)
>        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f59000)
>        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb7686000)
>        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7618000)
>        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7603000)
>        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb75e2000)
>        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb75df000)
>        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb75bc000)
>        libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xb7592000)
>        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb749f000)
>        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7494000)
>        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb7492000)
>        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb747a000)
>        libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb7460000)
>        libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb7439000)
>        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7421000)
>        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb741c000)
>
>As you can see, dynamic linking is being used for the C libraries.
>
>HTH,
>Erik
>  
>

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