From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: jca+emacs@wxcvbn.org (Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas)
Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code - some ideas
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:38:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838v4ax97o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gju1era.fsf@moo.wxcvbn.org>
> From: jca+emacs@wxcvbn.org (Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas)
> Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:39:37 +0200
>
> > Emacs already has a solution for all this, in the MS-Windows build
> > (which already loads these libraries dynamically). So what's needed
> > is to use the same arrangement on other platforms, which currently
> > link statically against these libraries.
>
> I think you meant "link dynamically", not "statically".
No, I meant statically.
> I trust you that there must have good reasons to do this on "windows",
> but I fail to see the bonus on Unix-like distros out there that have
> proper package / library / dependancies management.
Then what is this thread all about? Stefan said:
> > - Modules & FFI
> > I'm interested in adding a way to load compiled modules dynamically
> > and possibly add a FFI.
>
> That would be great.
>
> > I say possibly because the more I look into into the more I realize
> > it's not really helpful for complex stuff and simple stuff are easy to
> > do with a module.
>
> Things like libxml2 and libgnutls should use such a mechanism instead of
> the one they use currently.
If all of this is already solved, what else do we need that would load
libxml2 and libgnutls dynamically?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-21 16:46 Google Summer of Code - some ideas Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 17:25 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 17:53 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-21 23:05 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 18:34 ` joakim
2013-04-22 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-23 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-22 17:51 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-04-22 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:16 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-22 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 20:39 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-04-23 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-23 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-22 15:52 ` Lennart Borgman
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