[Tiny-cobol-users] TC runtime as shared lib

[Ferran P. <fer...@re...>]

I think that we should provide by default athe libraries of the runtime 
as shared objects.

This should be the default because is saves lots of disk space, and the 
only reason to keep it like now if for debugging, and teorically only 
developers debug the runtime.

What do you think about this ?

I also think that now that is possible to compile and call dll with 
mingw32 we should join the libraries libhtcobol and libhtcobol2 in one. 
If the runtime is a shared object there is no reason to keep 2 separate 
libs. To make to separate libs also is a problem when creating the 
runtime as a shared object on a windows platform.

If on configure somebody indicated that don't want sahred libs, we can 
make the lib without the dyncall object.

There are also some things that should be changes on the compiler to use 
shared libs. When using shared libs, the db, ltdl/dl, math and curses 
libraries are linked to the  runtime shared library and the link of the 
cobol program is very easy, only needs to link to htcobol. This make the 
compiler simpler.

I want to know what the rest of the developers and users think about this !

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