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Re: linking to a static lib and *not* a dynamic lib when both are present
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Re: linking to a static lib and *not* a dynamic lib when both are present


  • Subject: Re: linking to a static lib and *not* a dynamic lib when both are present
  • From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:40:34 +0100


Le 21 mars 08 à 16:30, Ladd Van Tol a écrit :


On Mar 21, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Tyler Daniel wrote:
It seems my fears are substantiated. At version 3.0, I guess the Xcode team doesn't consider the inability to specify the type of library a bug. I hope that changes in the future, and in the meantime I'd say that the UI is a bug, showing libsomething.a in the Link Binary with Libraries stage when the decision is actually left up to the filesystem.

Don't hold your breath on this one. I filed a bug (3716243) on the same issue in 2004, and it was marked as a duplicate of an even older bug (2725744).


I have a simple metric for determining if Apple will fix an Xcode bug:

1. Does this bug affect Apple engineers?
2. If yes, fix bug
3. If no, do not fix bug

All kidding aside, I think Apple might benefit from deeper insight into how non-Apple engineers use Xcode. Not being able to pick dynamic/static linkage from the GUI is easy for Apple to ignore, because Apple can just ship the pertinent dylib with the OS. Similarly, the lack of support for non-Unix line endings in FileMerge is easy for Apple to ignore, because they don't port Windows apps very often.

- Ladd

You know, you can do Windows devel using UNIX end of line. VisualStudio has a setting to choose it and it even warns you if you open a file with inconsistent line ending.
OK, if you edit your code with NotePad, it will not be possible, as Notepad supports only "two chars" end of line...
So, even if Apple ports application on Windows (iTunes, QuickTime, Safari), I don't think they encounter this issue.


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