[plt-scheme] Embedding mzscheme on cygwin - linking problems

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 10 16:51:43 EST 2005

At Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:52:22 -0500, Ittai Balaban wrote:
> To get away from shared library hell, I've managed to do without them --
> simply configure the mzscheme build with --disable-static, and you get,
> as expected, two *.a libraries in plt/lib. Is having libmzscheme/libmzgc
> as shared -- rather than static -- libraries especially crucial here (as
> Inside MzScheme suggests)?

This sounds like a fine solution. If your embedding application doesn't
need to share the DLLs with other applications, then there's no
particular need for DLLs.

Matthew



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