[luatex] Generate static libraries of the executables

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:41 PM Henri Menke <henrimenke at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear list, (especially Hans and Luigi)
>
> Would it be possible to have the build system generate static libraries
> of the executables as well?  That is to say, instead of generating
> luatex.exe, generate luatex.a which can then be turned into an
> executable in one linking step.
>
> The rationale is that I want to link additional static and/or dynamic
> libraries into LuaTeX but I don't want to go through the whole trouble
> of adding these libraries to the build system.  If there was a single
> static library `lua(jit)tex.a' which I could be used like
>
>     gcc -o myluatex luatex.a
>
> then this would become very easy.
>

Could be doable if we keep  a very simple API (kind of:  one function to
set up options and one function to run).
You can locally clone the svn repo and play a bit with the code, taking the
win32 as reference.

-- 
luigi
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