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Because there are several ways of linking, and findlib is not the
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>Recent versions of OCaml support DLLs, at least for some
platforms. Here, the option -custom is not necessary at all, because the
C libraries can be looked up and loaded at runtime. The option -custom
would have the effect of forcing static linking.</P
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>But even for platforms without DLL support, there are two
alternatives. One possibility is to use -custom, and the other is to
create runtime systems with -make-runtime, and reference them with
-use-runtime. Fortunately, recent versions of OCaml select now themselves
-custom automatically if -make-runtime is omitted, so findlib needs not to
bother with it.</P
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