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Re: shared libraries for debug, static for release ? [message #10220 is a reply to message #10216]

Mon, 25 June 2007 23:54

mirek
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pvozenilek wrote on Mon, 25 June 2007 16:51

(This is question from a newbie who still struggles (a lot) to understand how TheIDE works.)

I have a large non-UPP project and try to use TheIDE instead of wxDevC++ (WinXP & Linux, MSVC 7.1 & MingW 4.1.2).

My wish is to build selected packages(?) as shared libraries in debug mode and as static libraries in release mode. This would allow fast compilation and especially linking during the development (I use all the other tricks to reduce these times already and know about the upp linker) and the release application would be single executable.

Is something like this possible within TheIDE so that switching between debug and release modes would automatically do the right thing?

No, sorry, you cannot built just "selected" packages as shared - it is either all or nothing. In the same time, there is some - but only a little downside about using shared in Win32 (other than DLL hell) unlike traditional environments, e.g. TheIDE makes all public C symbols for this purpose "dll public" too...

OTOH, you mention MSVC 7.1., which is to our knowledge the optimal compiler/linker for most of C++ stuff. With incremental linker it posses, there is a little need (except the extremely large applications, more than 2 milions of lines of C++) to use shared libraries just to speedup the build process.

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As an aside: Digital Mars C++ compiler is the fastest I know about - it may not compile templates in Core but perhaps it could it be supported as yet another compiler set for non-UPP applications. This would, for me, allow to shrink write-compile-test cycle enough to eliminate a need for embedded scripting language.

If I remember well Digital Mars has MSVC compatibility mode via some switch. My interest about this compiler dropped at the moment when I have found it has not even achieved C preprocessor compatibility (unable to interpret some of U++ macros) but I remember trying to compile U++ with it Wink

(Note: I have high respect to Walter and his D efforts, even if I think he is wrong Smile

Mirek

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