[MLton] cvs commit: Indirect C calls.

[Filip Pizlo]

> > >>> MinGW	Doesn't work.  I'm not sure where to get dlopen and friends.
> > >>> 	Brent, do you have any ideas here?
> > >>
> > >> They may not exist, since MinGW is truly Windows, with all that
> > >> implies.  It may not have support for dlopen -- I'll look into it.
> > >
> > > There's at least hope, since dlopen works on Cygwin (which is open
> > > source).
> >
> > Worst case we just write a little wrapper that calls "LoadLibrary" from
> > the windows API.  I don't have a Windows system available at the
> > moment,
> > but I may be able to work on it in a few days.
> 
> I believe that this is what SML/NJ does with NLFFI.  There are two DynLink
> structures, one for dlopen and one for Windows.

Some people use libtool's libltdl, which gives you a dlopen-esque
interface that works pretty much everywhere.  It should be easy to
integrate, since the whole libltdl library is one C file.

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