Re: win32 programmer, linux newb needs help: lua/luasql

["Thomas Blom" <thomasblom@...>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:56:42 -0500, Sam Roberts <sroberts@bycast.com>  
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:21:47PM -0500, Thomas Blom wrote:
> > (the default 5.1.1 make produces no shared libs?)
>
> Hmm, weird. 5.0 does it when you do "make so soinstall".
the Makefile provided with the source for lua-5.1.1 contains no  
specification for building a shared library, only for building liblua.a

I assume this is to encourage the use of static linking?  I've seen some  
references to increased performance by avoiding position-independent code.

-thomas