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From: Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Dynamic module building and reloading
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:11:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt13tk8s.fsf@valhala.localdomain> (raw)


Hi,

I was playing a bit with dynamic modules and found two issues.

1. There does not seem to be any builtin utilities to deal with
the process of building and loading shared library. I ended up writing a
couple elisp functions to find the location of the C file, spawn cc,
load the shared library… Is this the expected method? In this state, it
would seem that every Emacs packages using dynamic modules has to write
its own build/load code.

2. It seems that once a dynamic module has been loaded, it cannot be
reloaded after the shared library has been rebuilt. A Google search
seems to confirm it. Is there a workaround? If I pursue my little
project, I'll have to write quite a lot of C code in the dynamic module;
I *really* do not want to restart Emacs to test every single
modification.

Hopefully I'm not the only one with these issues!

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Martyanoff
https://n16f.net
nicolas@n16f.net



             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-13 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-13 16:11 Nicolas Martyanoff [this message]
2023-06-13 16:55 ` Dynamic module building and reloading Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 17:10   ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2023-06-13 17:26     ` chad
2023-06-13 18:12     ` Eli Zaretskii

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