Re: dynamic loading of the imagemagic library?

[Jason Rumney]

address@hidden wrote:
> Is it ok to use dlopen and dlsym for imagemagick loading on
> gnu/linux platforms? I presume yes, but since I only dimly understand
> why dynamic use of external libraries is problematic, I ask.
>   

Linking to Free libraries is not problematic, making a generalized API 
to allow arbritrary libraries to be dynamically loaded might be.  The 
reason w32 uses dynamic linking for the image libraries is that there is 
no equivalent of apt/deb, rpm, BSD ports or fink on w32, so it is better 
for the users if we don't fail to run when non-essential dependencies 
are missing.