Improve native-lib experience with shared linking #4741
Description
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When loading a native-lib, the native-lib will usually need to invoke WAMR functions, for instance for translating between linear memory and physical host memory. However this will fail. The iwasm linux binary is built with symbols hidden, this means that at shared object load time the linker cannot link function calls from the native library to the code in iwasm.
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build iwasm by default with shared symbols, allowing linking.
Line 170, of wasm-micro-runtime/product-mini/platforms/linux/CMakeLists.txt
from:
add_library (vmlib ${WAMR_RUNTIME_LIB_SOURCE})to:
add_library (vmlib SHARED ${WAMR_RUNTIME_LIB_SOURCE})Describe alternatives you've considered
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- Linking the native-lib against vmlib, but we shouldn't need to.
- Manually asking the user to update the runtime.
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This can be enabled by hand. Turning this by default means that for developers creating their first native-lib, this is an easier, and better experience.