Re: zlib autoconf question

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:58:51 -0400
> 
> > The real solution to such problems is to probe for the availability of
> > the shared library at run time.
> 
> Or even better, to rely on an FFI (so not only you check availability
> at run-time, but you don't even need to have the library at
> compile-time).

That's similar to what the Windows port does with all the optional
libraries: the headers are required during the compilation, but the
libraries are not.  They are loaded when needed, with the equivalents
of dlopen and dlsym.