[PD-dev] individual files vs. libs for externals

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi,

I used to play just the same trick in xeq-0.1 for linux.

However, the current xeq-0.2 is being loaded ``by stub''.  Which
means, all there is inside of e.g. xeq.parse.pd_linux, is just
a call to (a kind of) sys_load_lib() for the main xeq.pd_linux
(using -defsym linker option in order to mangle the generic
'setup' symbol into 'xeq.parse_setup' entry symbol).  Still not
perfect, perhaps, but I happen to prefer this to ln -s.

Krzysztof

guenter geiger wrote:
...
 > link the file to an alias eg. ln -s prepend.pd_xxx pp.pd_xxx
 > add a second setup function in prepend.c:
 > void pp_setup() { prepend_setup(); }
 >
 > then you are done. The danger of doing this is that if you copy pp.pd_xxx
 > to some other place, be sure to move the prepend.pd_xxx too, otherwise
 > you will get a dangling link.