Re: address@hidden: dynamic loading of native code modules]

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:40, Rob Browning wrote:
> Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > No, here we talk about extension .so files, don't we? These are
> > loaded via libltdl (which has ugly error messages, by the way) and
> > thus one can specify the directory to load the lib from.
> 
> Current policy is that guile's extension libs are also to be
> dynamically linkable directly into applications.  This means that
> lt_dlopen is not the only way they're loaded.  Hence the need for
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar.
> 
     This is an interesting policy.  Is it documented somewhere?  I take
it the reason is because it's easier to develop the C libraries that way.

Lynn