Re: [Chicken-users] Modules in shared libs?

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:34:49PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Bex scripsit:
> 
> > You'll need to use csc -j c c.scm to emit file c.import.scm, then
> > compile that.  
> 
> Is there a significant benefit to compiling import libraries?  I have
> never bothered to do so.

There is if you have big macros.  The source of the macro code is
stored in import libraries.  If you compile with scrutiny, it'll
also warn you if something's wrong in the macro's code itself,
I think.  Not sure if that happens when compiling the main library.

For consistency and cargo culting reasons I always just compile my
import libs.

Cheers,
Peter
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