[LLVMdev] shared bitcode modules / dynamic linking.

[Paweł Sikora]

On Saturday 11 of February 2012 14:29:10 Paweł Sikora wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> afaics in manuals the llvm-{link,ld} tools only can merge bitcode files
> into one bigger piece which looks like a static-linking from the c/c++ world.
> i'm wondering is it any possibility to link bitcode elements dynamically
> in the same way as e.g. c#/msil assemblies? static linking into one executable
> looks horrible - any change in library used in project forces relinking of everything.
> 
> i've found a thread[*] in archive but it only describes a new linker tool
> without virtual machine support for loading bitcodes in runtime.
> 
> so, is there any plans to develop so called dynamic bitcode linking
> or there's another solution for this problem?
> 
> [*] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-December/046055.html
> 

i've changed a little the 'lli' to test loading of additional ${bitcode}.config file.
this simple .config contains a list of bitcodes required by current bitcode.
it seems to work in this trivial scenario but it would be great to store such list
directly in bitcode file (creating in llvm-link / using in lli).

is it any simple method to embbed such structure in bitcode file? some metadata?

thanks for any hints.

BR,
Paweł.
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