From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:19:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r4dzos23.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8v07roxz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:58:51 -0400
>
> > The real solution to such problems is to probe for the availability of
> > the shared library at run time.
>
> Or even better, to rely on an FFI (so not only you check availability
> at run-time, but you don't even need to have the library at
> compile-time).
That's similar to what the Windows port does with all the optional
libraries: the headers are required during the compilation, but the
libraries are not. They are loaded when needed, with the equivalents
of dlopen and dlsym.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-08 11:14 zlib autoconf question Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 11:23 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-08-08 12:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-08 12:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-08 12:47 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-08 12:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 12:57 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-08-08 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-11 19:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 12:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-08-11 19:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 20:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-08-11 22:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 22:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-08-11 22:59 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-12 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-12 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 16:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 16:35 ` Richard Stallman
2013-08-12 18:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 19:17 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-12 5:45 ` Dmitry Antipov
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