Re: Where should I install compiled modules please?

[Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>]

Look at guile-readline (in the subdirectory guile-readline of the guile 
source) and see how it's done there: basically you install a scheme module 
(which goes in the shared directory [$(datadir) in automake speak].) which 
scheme module explicitly loads the C module doing something like

(dynamic-call "scm_init_readline" (dynamic-link "libguilereadline.so"))

Then libguilereadline.so is searched for on the appropriate path, which 
includes the library executable directory [$(libdir) in automake speak].

In this way we don't rely on (use-modules ....) to load binary modules anymore.

This should go in the module-writers FAQ which doesn't exist.

Ian

> For support for running processes on a pseudo-terminal, I install a compiled
> module as share/guile/1.3.4/greg/libcompiled.so
> 
> Obviously, as it's compiled C code, it is architecture/OS specific, and so
> should not really appear under 'share' but (in my case) under 'ix86/linux-gnu'
> 
> I have tried putting it in 'ix86/linux-gnu/guile/1.3.4/greg/libcompiled.so', but
> when I do, it's not found by the guile interpreter.
> 
> Is there a correct architecture/OS specific place to put this, or is my only
> option the existing location in the shared area?
>