Re: [Maxima] Re: [Gcl-devel] HEAD Maxima and HEAD trad GCL

[Mike Thomas]

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