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Re: zlib autoconf question
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: zlib autoconf question |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:12:39 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> With an FFI you don't even need the headers. The library could be used
> even if it didn't exist back when Emacs was built.
If you look at how much scaffolding is typically needed to use a C
library in Emacs, I'm not sure how realistic that is. I mean -- zlib is
a pretty straightforward library. I look at decompress.c and try to
envision how much Emacs Lisp would have to be exposed to C things, and I
think it's perhaps ... a lot.
I've done quite a bit of FFI in Lispworks. It's kinda grody. I frequently
end up with a bit of C scaffolding just to make things easier.
And Lispworks doesn't have all the funky concepts that Emacs has.
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- Re: zlib autoconf question, (continued)
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/11
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Richard Stallman, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Paul Eggert, 2013/08/12
- Re: zlib autoconf question, Dmitry Antipov, 2013/08/12
Re: zlib autoconf question, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas, 2013/08/08