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Subject: Re: Tcl loadable packages 
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ld -Dshareable -o foo.so *.o 


>From the ld man page:
   -Bshareable
             Instructs the linker to build a shared object from the object
             files rather than a normal executable image.


Also you can name your loadable module anything that you want however the
the program loader has to know the name of the shareable object.


Also just peruse at the tcl port for further ideas and I think that 
it comes with a test call dltest.

>From my current port project for the University's CLSU Toolkit (speech
processing system):

     ${WISH} <<_END_
wm withdraw .
pkg_mkIndex . *[info sharedlibextension]
exit
_END_

The above script from the makefile builds a tcl index for all the *.so
files .



	Amancio


>From The Desk Of Narvi :
> 
> 	If one was to make a port of tcl loadable package, how would one
> 	go about it?
> 
> 	Well, I know I have to make a shared library. How am I to name it
> 	- the original makefile, that does not work on FreeBSD tries to
> 	just make a xxxx.so file.
> 
> 	Where am I to install it?
> 
> 	Would it be addvisable to make a short tcl script for easy loading
> 	it?
> 		(it would only contain something like 
> 		load /usr/local/.../xxx.so.1.0 xxxx)
> 
> 	Sander
> 
> 	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
> 	all these are just illusions.
>