Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

[David Boyce]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:08:33 -0400
>> From: David Boyce <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>>
>> Apropos of this, the Apache Portable Runtime has a nice abstraction
>> over dlopen and LoadLibrary.
>
> Is it significantly better than what libltdl provides?  The advantage
> of the latter is that it's readily available for both Posix and MinGW
> builds.

Sorry, I've never used libltdl. Maybe it would have been better just
to say "libraries exist to paper over the differences between various
platforms dynamic linking APIs; consider not reinventing the wheel".

David