Linux: Ship shared library druntime/phobos

[dnadlinger]

If I remember correctly, we currently build the binary releases in static library mode. Since Linux shared library support should be stable now (at least not introduce any bugs over the static version), we should probably default to it starting with the next release (i.e. in master now).

Another thing to consider is that some people might still want to do static builds e.g. for ease of deployment, so we might need to spice up the build system a little to provide both static and shared builds.

[unbornchikken]

+1

I think there should be dynamic and static options as well like in DMD.

[jkm]

I just figured this out. It is very annoying to not include the shared libraries in the binary releases. This is issue is over a year old. Are you still going to address the issue? It sounds like a little problem. I believe people use ldc package provided by their respective distribution. Here on Debian it seems that the ldc package and the gdc package do not play nice together. So I usually set them up manually using the respective binary releases.

[markos]

"did not" play nice together, since 1.1.0-2 ldc includes are put in a different path and should not clash with gdc.

[jkm]

Oh. You just fixed this for Debian. Many thanks. So I might give the system's packages another try.

[John-Colvin]

Any chance this could be done? One important consequence of the status quo is that dynamic libraries can't be tested on travis-ci, because it uses the binary releases.

[kinke]

It surely can. If someone's willing to give a hand, here's where to start: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc-scripts/tree/master/ldc2-packaging

[kinke]

And that'll need to be further discussed: #1735

[timotheecour]

https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core/pull/1401 creates shared phobos libs with brew install --head
however, it only builds shared libs; would be nice to build both static and shared, as done with dmd releases IIRC

[kinke]

We now ship with shared+static libs for the prebuilt Linux and OSX packages. See #1282 (comment) for details.