Re: dynamic loading in static exe

[Andy Adler]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> I've been playing with dynamic loading into statically
> linked octave.  The attached tarball demonstrates the
> case of a dynamically loaded function calling back into
> the main exe under mingw.  I know similar things are
> possible on IRIX, and I believe they are under Linux.
> I don't know about OS/X.

This is cool. I knew this was possible under Linux, but
I thought that the broken implementation of dll's under
windows disallowed it.

The advantage of this idea would then be:
    You could build *oct files on a development system,
    and then distribute them to people having a static
    octave build.

I am in favour of this idea. Static octave builds
are very easy to package and distribute for batch
processing tasks.

My only question is: does this process work with the
exact same *oct files as for --enable-shared?

Andy