[foreign] does static forwarder generation has to depend on -l presence?

[Jorn Vernee]

I think there was some caution when they were added, but over time we 
have started relying on static forwarders more and more. I think it 
makes sense to always generate the static forwarders. The generation can 
always be turned off again using the command line option if needed.

Jorn

Maurizio Cimadamore schreef op 2019-05-02 12:50:
> Hi,
> as I was playing with some stdlib examples, I noted that jextract was
> not generating any static forwarder for me. I was then reminded that
> static forwarders are only emitted if some library is passed via the
> -l option.
> 
> Is this too strict? After all, we have a 'default' Library that we can
> use as resolution context, which will pick up anything loaded by the
> VM (which also includes things in paths specified in sys variables
> like LD_LIBRARY_PATH). So, would it make sense to relax static
> forwarder generation so that, in the absence of -l, it will just use
> the default library?
> 
> That would improve usability in certain cases.
> 
> Maurizio