On 28 November 2000, Andrew Kuchling said:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:01:38PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
- Always shared libs. What about Unixish systems that don't have shared libs? What if you just want something to be hardcoded as statically linked, e.g. for security reasons? (On the other hand
Beats me. I'm not even sure if the Distutils offers a way to compile a static Python binary. (GPW: well, does it?)
It's in the CCompiler interface, but hasn't been exposed to the outside world. (IOW, it's mainly a question of desiging the right setup script/command line interface: the implementation should be fairly straightforward, assuming the existing CCompiler classes do the right thing for generating binary executables.) Greg