Re: Avoid gawkextlib as a separate shared library (was: MinGw port of gawkextlib)

[arnold]

Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com> wrote:

> IIRC, there have been other people confused about the role of gawkexlib 
> as a required DLL. ....
>
> This issue has been discussed long time ago. My proposal was to move the 
> stuff in /lib to /shared, and add strhash.{c,o} and varinit.{c.o} to the 
> lists of files required by some extensions. I.e., link this stuff 
> statically instead of a shared library.
>
> Both strhash and varinit are small. Is it really convenient to avoid 
> duplicating this small code in the extensions that require them? I guess 
> few people will install a bunch of extensions all of them requiring all 
> the content of gawkextlib.
>
> Is it ok to discuss the issue again?

I don't object. I think anything that simplifies gawkextlib installation
is good.

Arnold