Alan W. Irwin wrote: >Given that dynamic loading must be done, the problem is that each platform >typically has a different API for dynamic loading. libltdl solves this >cross-platform issue by wrapping all API's in a standard API which libplplot >calls. There are other free libraries (for example, Trolltech has QLibrary, >[http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/qlibrary.html] which KDE has recently switched >to) which do the same job, but I think fundamentally we must continue to use >libltdl or some equivalent to dynamically load plug-in devices in a >cross-platform way regardless of how those devices are implemented.\ > > Hm, yes, you are right - I skipped that issue completely. Well, there are plenty of other things for me to work on (the tedious job of putting together a .def file for the Fortran bindings for instance), so I will gladly leave this topic to Werner :).
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