Re: Writing extensions which interact (is not fun)

[Carsten Fuchs <carsten.fuchs@...>]

Am 2012-08-04 11:12, schrieb Doug:
> Binding everything up and statically linking the extension to the
> binary does seem to be the only way to make it work properly.
> [...]
> Deeply frustrating to work with.

Exactly my experience, too.

It would help if Lua kept no internal static state, but it seems that the real problem 
is that DLLs under Windows and SOs under Linux (my main platforms, can't say much about 
others) are different enough so that "portable" support in an advanced 
application/setting for both is very problematic.
Especially "mixing" is difficult: Linking everything statically or linking "everything" 
dynamically seems to work out relatively naturally, but linking the main application 
statically and using DLLs/SOs only for extensions/"plugins" comes with an astonishing 
number of platform-specific differences, and it is very hard to deal with all of them 
combined.

Best regards,
Carsten



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