Re: why the libtool runtime requirement?

Not quite. You'd still need to modify the symbol names - if you dlread() 
a symbol called "mysym", you get the symbol "mysym". If you lt_dlread() 
a symbol called "mysym", you get "pluginname_LTX_mysym" if I recall. 
But otherwise, it's fairly straightforward.

Really, really, though, Michael - I'd advise jumping from Everybuddy. If 
you want the program with the same look and feel (it's a continuation 
of the original codebase), go check out ayttm (.sf.net). And that's not 
bias either - I'm EB-lite maintainer :^)

If you *do* want to look at eb-lite, you may be happy to hear that if 
you do a static compile with the ABS (alternative build system), 
there's no libtool dependency. I think you can avoid it with the 
autotools build too, but I'm not sure - Philip?

Meredydd

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 08:30, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Michael Honeyfield wrote:
> > what the team want to do now. Just out of interest, if *we* wanted
> > to remove the libtool require and code the changes needed, are we
> > in for
>
> well, I think you'd just have to replace calls to lt_dl* with the dl*
> functions from dlfcn.h  Should work.
>
> Philip