Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] generating shared libraries for subsystems

[Chris Hanson]

Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Having successfully figured out the necessary procedure to bootstrap a
> stand-alone system with the C back end, I've stumbled across the
> problem that restoring a band containing dynamically loaded libraries
> requires reloading those libraries.  There was a mechanism to get
> around this put in about thirteen years ago where Edwin's loader would
> call (DECLARE-SHARED-LIBRARY "edwin" ...), which registers the Edwin
> shared library to be loaded on restoration, but I can't find any way
> to build those subsystem shard libraries.  Is there an extant way to
> do this?

No.  I asked Bill about this a while back and even he didn't remember
how to do it.  He did say it had something to do with the WANT_ONLY_DATA
and WANT_ONLY_CODE conditionalizations.