Re: loading functions from a shared library

[Dave Love]

>>>>> Steve Kemp writes:

 >   Libtool is something that I've never really looked at, so that might
 >  change things a little bit.

 >   Today I got the XEmacs styled code compiled, and managed to load
 >  a trivial extension module working.

Sorry, I didn't make it clear I could have saved you the trouble
(unless what I did broke in the last couple of years).

 >   I'll try to find out more about libtool soon, to see if that would
 >  be a better way to go.  The immediate question I'd have, though, is
 >  would libtool be available for all the platforms upon which Emacs
 >  currently runs?

I guess not (e.g. DOS, Mac, for a start), but I guess the XEmacs stuff
is less portable.  [Heaven knows on which platforms Emacs does
actually run these days -- doubtless not on many that are in the
configuration files but aren't tested.]  If libtool doesn't support a
platform and you do the necessary work for libtool, it's usable
generally.