[Verse-dev] Connector source availability

[Samium Gromoff]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:45 +0200, Emil Brink wrote:
> Samium Gromoff wrote:
> [lib* in quelsolaar]
> > A bigger problem is that those libraries are not, in the full sense,
> > libraries, because the build process does not structure them out.
> 
> Well ... It depends on definitions. :) They're built, at least in Linux,
> as static libraries (lib*.a).
> 
> Why is this a problem?

Oh, sorry, my mistake -- i was unable to locate them properly.

Probably i should slow down a bit on sending mail and dive into code...

> > Thing is, this makes linking against them impossible, as i understand
> > it.
> 
> Hm ... No, they're most certainly possible to link against, but they're
> not *currently* meant to be installed in a library location on a user's
> system. We link them statically in all applications that need them, and
> just separate them out and build them as lib's as an intermediate step
> since it makes sense.
>
> I know Eskil builds the applications by just adding all the necessary
> source files to a project in his IDE, and hitting the "Compile" button,
> but for the Makefile-driven approach I really like modularizing the code
> into discrete libraries, if only for the build process so far.

Indeed.

> Regards,
> 
> /Emil

respectfully, Samium Gromoff