[R-SIG-Mac] Fwd: os x / g95 package namespace load problem

[Jan de Leeuw]

An exception to this rule: packages such as tkrplot must be
loaded into the running tcltk process provided by tcltk.so. They
need to be linked as dylibs with flag -dynamic.  Even for X11
tcltk.so. I seem to remember there was one other such package,
but they are very rare.

On Jun 23, 2005, at 14:03 , Simon Urbanek wrote:

>> I was told to use the .dylib extension instead of .so
>>
>
> Who told you that? If you used the regular process for compiling
> package code that R provides, you'd see that libraries in packages
> still use .so, because they are loaded using dlopen so the name
> doesn't have to conform to OS' conventions.
>

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