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Re: Issues with GD
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Issues with GD
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From: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:00:02 -0500 (EST)
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Nolan Darilek <nolan@ethereal.dhis.org> writes:
> One of my current frustrations is that I cannot use my favorite C
> libraries in Dylan,
You can use the C libraries, it just takes a bit more manual work to
hand-code the melange interfaces.
> I'm wondering how writing a SWIG module might boost Dylan's
> popularity?
It's been mentioned before but no one has actually done any thing
about it. Even when Pidgin is done I think it is intended to use the
C-FFI interface so that would have to be completed for GD as well.
> Also, I noticed that d2c seems to use libtool in its
> compilation. Why is this done?
Libtool support might be used as a standard interface to make creation
of shared libraries easier across the different platforms.
> Is this the same on windows with FD? (With a different compiler
> command, of course.)
With FD I haven't needed to use anything like make. As libraries
define what other libraries they use it all the dependancies get
worked out by the compiler.
Chris.
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