Re: [Texmacs-dev] [Announce] nogencc-0.7

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> Oops, you should have pasted that on #texmacs
> 
> dlopen() and the other listed functions do dynamic linking of
> libraries!

> That's seems reasonnable you can't use dynamic linking
> functions when using static linking.

Dynamic linking maybe very useful for linking computer algebra
systems (or later, things like imlib) after static linking.

> But the twist is this does not
> belong to TeXmacs code but to the Guile library.  I don't know if you
> can compile Guile without dynamic linking. And like

David might try another version of guile, like 1.4.

> Anyway, If some platform impose on us static linking, if it has
> Guile it will have it compiled statically (if possible).
> Also static linking reduces the options for a client to connect to
> TeXmacs.

Yes, both static and dynamic linking have adavantages and drawbacks
as pointed out in the previous messages.

<Joris>