Re: zlib autoconf question

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> With an FFI you don't even need the headers.  The library could be used
> even if it didn't exist back when Emacs was built.

If you look at how much scaffolding is typically needed to use a C
library in Emacs, I'm not sure how realistic that is.  I mean -- zlib is
a pretty straightforward library.  I look at decompress.c and try to
envision how much Emacs Lisp would have to be exposed to C things, and I
think it's perhaps ... a lot.

I've done quite a bit of FFI in Lispworks.  It's kinda grody.  I frequently
end up with a bit of C scaffolding just to make things easier.

And Lispworks doesn't have all the funky concepts that Emacs has.

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