From: <jca...@in...> - 2001-12-15 03:11:24
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On Thursday 13 December 2001 21:53, Alan W. Irwin wrote: | On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Joao Cardoso wrote: | > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 23:50, Alan W. Irwin wrote: =2E.. | > | (13) dynamic tk and xwin driver. (probably Joao). My | > | impression from commented out parts of the code that I reviewed | > | for the cgm driver is this might be ready to go now that we | > | understand exactly what is required in the gd and cgm cases.=20 | > | Every dynamic driver requires a link to libplplot and some | > | require additional links to their own special libraries.=20 | > | Wouldn't those special libraries just be the Tk library for the | > | tk driver and the X libraries for the xwin driver? | > | > The xwin and tk drivers can't be made dynamic. | > | > There is no problem with the xwin driver alone, but the tk driver | > (either static or dynamic) won't work with a dynamic xwin driver. | > The tk driver needs some functions that are in the xwin driver. | > | > The only solution, which is not elegant, would be to link tk.o | > and xwin.o to make tk.drv. | | Would you please implement this solution? I'm sorry, I have forgot other details. I had already deeply=20 investigated this, and it is *not possible* to make the tk driver=20 dyn-loadable without serious changes in the library itself. That's=20 one of the reasons why I started the (not yet funtional) ntk driver. =2E.. Joao |