Linking an Interpreter dynamically
Paul Duffin
pduffin at mailserver.hursley.ibm.com
Mon Jun 28 08:52:50 EDT 1999
Lloyd Weehuizen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I was just wondering if it is possible to create a dynamically linkable
> python interpreter? I've looked in the docs, but can't seem to find
> anything, and "make sharedinstall" doesn't seem to give me any linkable
> libraries??
>
On Windows Python is built as a DLL but on Unix Python is built as an
archive library. Apparently Guido decided that he did not want to build
Python as a shared library on Unix (or even support it in the standard
installation) for some reason but I do not know why. The only reason
why it is built as a DLL on Windows is that otherwise Python could not
load dynamic extensions due to linking problems in Windows.
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