From: Dima Pasechnik <dima@sagemath.org>
Subject: Re: lang/sbcl - building and installing libsbcl.so ?
To: Sebastien Marie <semarie@kapouay.eu.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:09:35 +0100

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote:
> Dima Pasechnik <dima@sagemath.org> writes:
> > sbcl can be packaged into a dynamic library, something one needs for
> > e.g. calling Lisp from C or Python,
> > via sbcl-librarian  https://github.com/quil-lang/sbcl-librarian
> >
> 
> A question about your use-case: would a static library (libsbcl.a) be
> enough for your purpose ?

I don't know, I only tried .so. (in general people would prefer .so for
things like building Python extensions, which is what I aim at).

> 
> I am a bit reluctant to add a shared lib (with all the major/minor
> management its implies) for something outside the port tree.

not sure what you mean by "outside".
I'm adding it to the "normal" place, /usr/local/lib/

> 
> The static-library is simple to add (with --with-sb-linkable-runtime
> support).
> 
> Else I will look to add it.

I'm almost done with a proper patch for it, I hope to send it tonight.

Best,
Dima