Re: [hatari-devel] The IPF license

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On sunnuntai 22 joulukuu 2013, Thomas Huth wrote:
> schrieb Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 22/12/2013 15:23, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > Maybe it would be a good idea to use dlopen() and friends for using
> > > the libcapsimage instead of linking it directly? However, I am not
> > > sure how portable the dlopen() is when it comes to building Windows
> > > and Mac OS X binaries...
> > 
> > I once thought about this, but we need to handle windows build from
> > mingw too, I'm not sure dlopen exist there ? And maybe other OS where
> > Hatari can build today have a different alternative ? In the end, it
> > could mean a lot of OS specific cases to have a dlopen behaviour,
> > maybe too much effort for such a problem ?
> 
> I just found that there seems to be a wrapper library for MinGW:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/dlfcn-win32/
> 
> However, I don't know how usable it is...

Implementation is in a single file and not that large, and as it's GPL
v2.1 or later, so it could be even included with Hatari sources.


	- Eero