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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FFI again
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:14:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83siwc44k7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n8sl41v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:33:48 +0900
> Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> IIUC, Emacs for Windows already has support for on-demand
> link-loading (maybe better called "if-available" as currently
> implemented?)

Yes, you understand correctly.  In fact, _all_ of the optional
libraries for which Emacs has interfaces and which are supported on
Windows -- all of them are loaded dynamically at run time, if
available, and when the corresponding feature is required/probed for.

> and we didn't need to do any contorting of the
> "ellcc" infrastructure that makes sure the right compiler is invoked
> and links the module to the Lisp feature system.

Right.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-05 16:11 FFI again Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 16:24 ` joakim
2013-10-05 22:18   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 22:33     ` joakim
2013-10-06 16:39       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 16:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-06 18:17           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 19:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-07  1:41         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-07  3:29           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07  4:34             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-07  4:58               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 22:14                 ` Andy Moreton
2013-10-07 22:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-08  6:54                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-08  2:22                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-08  2:47                   ` Richard Stallman
2013-10-08  5:33                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-08  7:14                       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-05 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-05 23:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-06 19:19 ` Richard Stallman

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