Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Angus Leeming wrote:
| > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>> Do we still need guiapi.[Ch]? Again, it seems like it is not
| >>> linked to the final LyX executable.
| >> I let it there because I don't know it is used in some external
| >> client. We shall know if this is true or not before removing this.
| > You can kill it. Lars introduced it years ago when he got exited by
| > the idea of dll-importing the frontend library, but the idea never
| > came to anything concrete.
|
| This is almost concrete now :-)
You misunderstand. This was about runtime dynamic loading of
libraries, not about using dynamic libraries and letting the system
linker handle it upon startup.
| > The file can always be resurrected later on; it's meant to be a C-
| > language wrapper to our C++ frontend library calls.
|
| I'll kill it then. C++ dll are common nowadays, I don't think we'll
| ever need to wrap the frontend interface in C.
As dlopen(3) only have a C-interface you have to provide a C-api to get
to the underlying C++-api...
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Lgb
