Re: statically linking in srfi modules

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 13:02 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> Hmm, I can't find scm_c_register_extension in the guile reference index,
> and though including libguile.h finds the function I get the error
> message scm_init_srfi_1 undeclared... 
> Hunting around for this symbol I see the header srfi-1.h with it
> declared but
> #include "guile/srfi/srfi-1.h"
> gives a heap of errors...

Oh, sorry, that was daft, I needed to include libguile before that
header. Now it won't link ... so we will need to find the right library
name to link to...

Richard


> 
> It looks like this module is the only one doing the dynamic loading
> thing, judging by grepping for extension in the files, but is there a
> way of knowing?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 12:27 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> > On Fri 08 Feb 2013 10:25, Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 09:24 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > >> Is it possible to statically link in the srfi modules?
> > >> (load-extension "libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3" "scm_init_srfi_1")
> > >> fails.
> > 
> > You can link it in I think, but then you will need to call
> > 
> >   scm_c_register_extension ("libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3", "scm_init_srfi_1",
> >                              scm_init_srfi_1, NULL)
> > 
> > somewhere in your C code.
> > 
> > > Oh - sorry, I should have mentioned, we are still on guile 1.8 (perhaps
> > > for no good reason?), if that affects the answer.
> > 
> > Same answer.  Guile 2.0 is much faster if that matters to you :)
> > 
> > Andy
>