Linux and shared libraries

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Bunny_351
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Linux and shared libraries

Post by Bunny_351 »

Hi!

I just found out about Irrlicht and played around with it.
Absolutely awesome!

Is there a particular reason why the Linux port builds static
libraries instead of shared libs? It's relatively straightforward [*]
to fix and is nice for dynamic loading.

Anyway, wonderful piece of software! I have just run the demos
but the API looks very clean and easy to use.


cheers,
felix

[*] just compile with -fPIC, link with g++ -shared, and add
the load path via -Wl,-R ...
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Post by niko »

Thanx. Yeah, the only reason why I did not make a shared lib was because I had no experience in it, I am really new to linux. But learning more and more each day. ;)
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