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What's the purpose of the static library?

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alain Frisch <alain@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library?

bill yan wrote:
> By my understanding, unlike  dlllibrary.so and liblibrary.a give user an 
> option to choose compile dynamically or staticly,  it seems for 
> library.a, user can only choose static method. Does that mean  "compiled 
> native code" can only be staticly linked to user's application?

In OCaml 3.11, it will be possible to link native code (found in 
library.a or module.o files) into .cmxs files that can be explicitly 
loaded at runtime (with the same API as for bytecode Dynlink).

Alain