Re: Creating modules from C (was: On the deprecated auto-loading of compiled-code modules)

[Matthias Koeppe]

Thanks for all the useful explanations and suggestions.

>From Marius' message I had thought that I could leave out the whole
export business if I don't `scm_ensure_user_module', but I got this
obviously wrong.

I am now using `scm_ensure_user_module()' and a call to
`module-export!'  via `scm_apply' in SWIG when building self-contained
Guile modules.

I had actually hoped there was a cleaner way to do module creation
_and_ symbol export from the C level; the call to `module-export!' is
a bit strange.  (It looks as if it might change without notice in
later versions, and I would like to use the Recommended,
Never-Changing-Again method to deal with modules for SWIG.)  

Even a very thin layer of C code would help a lot here; I would
suggest adding a function `scm_module_export_x(SCM module, SCM
list_of_symbols)' to `modules.h'.  What do others think?

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Matthias Köppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe