Re: FFI again

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:33:48 +0900
> Cc: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> IIUC, Emacs for Windows already has support for on-demand
> link-loading (maybe better called "if-available" as currently
> implemented?)

Yes, you understand correctly.  In fact, _all_ of the optional
libraries for which Emacs has interfaces and which are supported on
Windows -- all of them are loaded dynamically at run time, if
available, and when the corresponding feature is required/probed for.

> and we didn't need to do any contorting of the
> "ellcc" infrastructure that makes sure the right compiler is invoked
> and links the module to the Lisp feature system.

Right.