Re: Wrapping an Emacs dynamic module in a package

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joris Vankerschaver <joris.vankerschaver@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:37:54 +0100
> 
> I have an emacs dynamic module that I would like install as part of a
> multi-file package. That is, I have a shared object file _mymod.so, and
> some Elisp wrappers mymod-pkg.el and mymod.el that do various bits of
> initialization.
> 
> When Emacs installs my package, things go wrong when generating the
> autoloads for _mymod.so. I get a
> 
>   (error "_mymod.so:0:0: error: scan-error: (Containing expression ends
> prematurely 238020 238021))
> 
> This happens during autoload-generate-file-autoloads for _mymod.so.

What do you mean by "Emacs installs", and why does that cause Emacs to
try to generate autoloads for _mymod.so?