Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] HEAD Maxima and HEAD trad GCL
From: Mike Thomas
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:15:17 +1000
Hi Camm.
>./configure --disable-statsysbfd --disable-custreloc --enable-dlopen (--enable-ansi)
>
>and then build maxima with the -alt-gcl-link. I'd really like to know
>how this goes.
>
>
I keep meaning to reply to this request and continually forget I'm
sorry. There isn't support for dlopen in Win32. It might be possible
to borrow code from the Moscow ML source tree which does an excellent
job of this but it really is pushing the limits of Windows compatibility
particularly when there is a lot of static data lying around in the
libraries.
Remember that DLL's on Windows are completely linked executables which
means that the semantics of their use are substantially different to
that on Unix platforms.
Cheers
Mike Thomas