[LLVMdev] Practical --enable-shared LLVM builds.

[Cyrille Berger]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>    Thinking as a LLVM user, are shared libraries interesting to you? If
>    the answer is yes, is the one-big-dll mentioned above useful to you?
I see one advantage, currently if two libraries use llvm and are linked 
together in one program, then it asserts at starting since the two libraries 
will initialize some of the basic llvm types at start up (or at least I had 
the issue a couple of monthes ago) which was easily solved in my case in 
making sure that llvm stuff was only linked in a common library.

As for loading time, I guess it's a big problem for llvm's tools (such as 
llvm-gcc), since it is usual to call them a lot while compiling.

-- 
Cyrille Berger