From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI again Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:14:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83siwc44k7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iox9luwa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hactlmx0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8261t83f0e.fsf@gmail.com> <874n8sl41v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381216505 7235 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2013 07:15:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 07:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 08 09:15:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VTRVb-0003Fk-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTRVb-0002Qr-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTRVS-0002ON-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTRVM-00022s-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTRVM-00022c-L9; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MUC00D009F9PN00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:14:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MUC00DP29GQ9580@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:14:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874n8sl41v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163996 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:33:48 +0900 > Cc: Andy Moreton , 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.