Re: [PATCH] [WIP] Port feature/native-comp to Windows.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:27:18 +0000
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> Nicolas Bértolo <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > PS: I don't understand why the freloc table is necessary. Is it impossible 
> > to
> > rely on the dynamic linker to solve that when calling dlopen()?
> 
> The problem is that being Emacs an executable we do not export the
> symbols to be used by the dynamic linker.

You mean, the symbols of primitives that compiled Elisp code calls?

> I think it should be possible (depending on the tool-chain) but I never
> tried.  What I'm not sure of is how much is it portable given is not a
> common scenario.  Because typically afterwards the answer comes up to be
> "not enough" at the time I decided to handle it inside, the generated
> code should be similar.

But that is even less portable, isn't it?  Or am I missing something?