Re: NaCl support for Emacs

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:21:36 +0100 Carsten Mattner <address@hidden> wrote: 

CM> 2012/1/9 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:48:58 +0100 Carsten Mattner <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
CM> NaCl's design goals, implementation and patent cleanness make it attractive
CM> to anyone who's had to make use of any kind of cipher functionality.
>> 
>> I think it makes sense to provide a GNU ELPA package with NaCl,
>> absolutely.  But it's provided as a static library and I don't know how
>> to convert it to dynamically loaded, and Emacs doesn't have facilities
>> to load arbitrary dynamic libraries at runtime.  The rest (packaging,
>> on-activation compile) I can handle in the package itself.  If you want
>> to help out... or anyone else... let me know off-list.

CM> Does wrapping the .a file in a dynamic lib make sense?

If you could point me to a tutorial on this, I'd appreciate it, but I
think we're too far off-topic for emacs-devel.  If anyone else is
interested in packaging NaCl on the GNU ELPA, let me know directly.

Joakim's suggestion of bringing in libffi is good, but that's a lot of
work!  I hope someone is interested in doing it.

Thanks
Ted