# Request: Shared Libraries on Linux

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/request-shared-libraries-on-linux/341>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [May 28, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/request-shared-libraries-on-linux/341 "2005-05-28T14:48:38Z")\
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**[epsilondelta](https://sourceforge.net/u/epsilondelta/)** wrote on [Saturday, May 28, 2005](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/b6b22836/#c863):

I’m hoping that this will be included sometime soon. Marcus, do you think you can add support for this?

The DerelictGLFW project at [dsource.org](http://dsource.org) (for the D programming language) needs a linux shared library version of GLFW to work on that platform. I’ve done a stop-gap solution for version 2.4.2 in the meantime that converts the source and makefile to create a shared library. My instructions are provided here:

[http://svn.dsource.org/projects/derelict/trunk/DerelictGLFW/README](http://svn.dsource.org/projects/derelict/trunk/DerelictGLFW/README)

It works fine with a simple modification to the source. But I was hoping there would be official support for this soon.

I have the makefile changes and source changes if your interested. These changes aren’t very significant.

Thanks,

John Reimer