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rensing@egret.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul Rensing) writes:
>I would like to know if the Interviews release is going to support sharable
>libraries? Has anyone tried to build them ? What success have you had?

3.1 beta does right now, if you have the right set up. I have installed it
with shared libraries using g++ 2.2.2 on a SUN4 running SunOS 4.1.1. 
All I had to do was make the appropriate entries in the local.def 
configuration file and then compile.

>I find it annoying that a small app like idraw with about 10 unique source
>files ends up being 5 Mbytes of code (in debug, mind you) and take about 5
>minutes to link. Sharable libraries would help.

I get the following file sizes for these example programs from the IV
distribution:
163840 Jul  3 14:58 dclock*
196608 Jul  3 15:01 iclass*
155648 Jul  3 15:01 idemo*
548864 Jul  3 15:02 idraw*
122880 Jul  3 15:02 ifc*
131072 Jul  3 15:02 logo*
155648 Jul  3 15:02 mailbox*

Graham
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