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Re: zlib autoconf question

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:05:30 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) 
> 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.

With an FFI you don't even need the headers.  The library could be used
even if it didn't exist back when Emacs was built.


        Stefan
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