[Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: sockets

[Weiss, Juergen]

I think akcl and gcl has the ability to load and dynamically
link object files into a lisp image and save that later to
a file.

But as far as I understand, the AXIOM makefiles generate the
initial lisp executable with for example sockio-c.o linked in from all 
the object files of the gcl system using the normal system linker.
That is, we have to compile gcl in the context of AXIOM and cannot 
use a gcl package which is independent of AXIOM.

Juergen

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> Juergen,
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> > 2. Actually I think I had a version of scratchpad
> > on akcl a long time ago, where the additional objectfiles were
> > dynamically loaded into the lisp system. I am not sure, but
> > I think it was possible to save a lisp image which 
> > contained the loaded object files. Using such a technique
> > would allow us to use a stock gcl distribution.
> 
> This is exactly what the makefile does. Axiom needs sockets to
> communicate with the hypertex and graphics subsystems. The socket
> code is compiled and added to the underlying lisp. However I noticed
> that GCL appears to have socket code which was clearly added after
> AKCL.
> 
> Tim
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