Merge dynamic link library

Question

Merge dynamic link library

lucky-chen opened this issue 5 months ago · 6 comments

lucky-chen commented 5 months ago

Introduction

Merge dynamic link library

Details

ReacNative has a lot of dylib. complex dependencies between each other

It's difficult to understand and maintain

Discussion points

Can we merge the dylib？ eg:

libReactNatvie.so
libReactNatvieDevtool.so

benefit

easy to maintain
reduce package size

Answer 1 · 2024-01-22T08:05:41.000Z

There’s a lot of appetite to reduce the number of shared libraries, and @cortinico has started doing this on the Android side.

Answer 2 · 2024-01-22T08:32:11.000Z

Yup we're planning on merging .so on Android in the near future

Answer 3 · 2024-01-22T08:43:42.000Z

@cortinico Glad to get this information, great job!!!
And guys，did we have any roadmap or deadline，

Answer 4 · 2024-01-22T08:47:48.000Z

Also, did we have plan on iOS。

Answer 5 · 2024-01-22T08:54:00.000Z

@cortinico Glad to get this information, great job!!! And guys，did we have any roadmap or deadline，

Nope we don't have a roadmap for this work, but I hope to be able to do it in H1. For what is worth, 0.74 will already ship with a reduction in number of .so (from ~60 to ~40).

Answer 6 · 2024-01-23T17:16:51.000Z

@lucky-chen no, we currently don't have plans for iOS.
The situation here is a bit more complex as we would have to unify the C++ layer in a way that preserve the include paths. As mush as I'd love to reach a moment where we only have React Native, Hermes/JSC, JSI and perhaps Yoga as frameworks, the amount of work is quite big.