From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:05:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9kmrj35.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r4dzos23.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:19:16 +0300")
> 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.
With an FFI you don't even need the headers. The library could be used
even if it didn't exist back when Emacs was built.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 16:05 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
2013-08-12 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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