From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/12] lbase64: New package
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:28:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130522092804.4ad6f332@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwac6DEuYjE2cnXVX9rqnQnckOdHSNz+h-CSYvTCQ9Y1U_A-w@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Assaf Inbal,
On Wed, 22 May 2013 09:55:14 +0300, Assaf Inbal wrote:
> > We currently probably have many packages that generate .so files even if
> > PREFER_STATIC_LIB is true - that's why it is "prefer", right?
> >
> > That said, I'm certainly in favour of making the STATIC stuff more strict.
>
> I think there is some misunderstanding regarding libraries in Lua. When Lua
> libraries are created, they can either be Lua text files or C code that
> uses Lua API so that the library's API can be called from Lua scripts. When
> choosing the latter option, the output must be a shared object, when
> calling the 'require' function in Lua to load an external file, Lua will
> look for file names ending with either 'lua' or 'so'.
> There is simply no way to 'statically link' a Lua library.
Ok. In this case, presumably all those Lua modules/libraries should
have a 'depends on !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB'.
Best regards,
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 12:56 [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/12] coxpcall: Updated source location Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/12] luasocket: Update " Assaf Inbal
2013-06-16 19:47 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-17 5:18 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/12] sqlite: Added host compilation support Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 13:26 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-20 14:27 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 16:00 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/12] lbase64: New package Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 14:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-20 15:23 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 17:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-22 6:19 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-05-22 6:55 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-05-22 7:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-05-22 7:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-22 7:06 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-05-22 7:29 ` Bryan Hundven
2013-05-22 7:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-22 7:46 ` Bryan Hundven
2013-05-22 7:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-20 16:00 ` François Perrad
2013-06-16 19:52 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-17 5:31 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-17 20:59 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/12] lua-ev: " Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 16:05 ` François Perrad
2013-06-16 19:53 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-17 5:58 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-17 21:14 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/12] luabitop: " Assaf Inbal
2013-06-16 20:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/12] luacrypto: " Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 16:07 ` François Perrad
2013-06-16 20:16 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-17 6:18 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-17 21:18 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/12] luaexpatutils: " Assaf Inbal
2013-06-19 21:24 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/12] luaposix: " Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 16:09 ` François Perrad
2013-06-19 21:34 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-20 4:45 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-20 5:57 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-06-20 6:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-06-20 7:05 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-20 7:39 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-20 7:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/12] luasec: " Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 16:10 ` François Perrad
2013-08-12 17:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/12] luasql: " Assaf Inbal
2013-05-20 16:13 ` François Perrad
2013-08-12 17:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-20 12:56 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/12] orbit: " Assaf Inbal
2013-08-13 9:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-08-13 10:16 ` Assaf Inbal
2013-06-16 19:46 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/12] coxpcall: Updated source location Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-17 5:17 ` Assaf Inbal
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