Merge dynamic link library

[lucky-chen]

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

[NickGerleman]

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

[cortinico]

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

[lucky-chen]

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

[lucky-chen]

Also, did we have plan on iOS。

[cortinico]

@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).

[cipolleschi]

@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.

[hushizhi]

Great dependency chart. May I ask what tool was used to automatically analyze the dependencies and generate this chart?