Re: Google Summer of Code - some ideas

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:34:39 -0400
> Cc: Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> > - Modules & FFI
> > I'm interested in adding a way to load compiled modules dynamically
> > and possibly add a FFI.
> 
> That would be great.
> 
> > I say possibly because the more I look into into the more I realize
> > it's not really helpful for complex stuff and simple stuff are easy to
> > do with a module.
> 
> Things like libxml2 and libgnutls should use such a mechanism instead of
> the one they use currently.

Would loading them dynamically with dlopen and dlsym, similar to what
the MS-Windows build does now, be good enough?  If not, why not?