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Re: C modules and shared libraries
Ian Grant <I.A.N.Grant@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On 7 Jun 1999, Marius Vollmer wrote:
>
> > The only think we should do with Guile at this moment is to beef up
> > the dynmic-link function so that the libguiledlopenhelper kluges are
> > no longer necessary. What about extending dynamic-link to take a
> > ":global BOOL" keyword argument? ":global TRUE" would be the default.
> > I'll implement that when nobody objects.
>
> Marius, I reckon nobody objects. Tell us when its in CVS.
Yep, I want to look into libltdl but the :global keyword should be
useful anyway. It expresses the difference between plugin-style usage
of shared libraries (where plugins should be kept separate) and
genuine run-time linking of program parts (that should melt into the
image as seemlessly as possible).