Randall S. Becker

@daztucker the code should be in better shape now. I added a separate control in configure.ac to handle the `_getshort()` and `_getlong()` issue. If there is a better place to...

[Edit: Nevermind below. The depth of issues associated with using DLLs with this code is a lot of work.] @Jojo-Schmitz Found a problem with the build that came up. The...

> > @Jojo-Schmitz Found a problem with the build that came up. The `-fPIC` option is not supported on this platform. The platform default is PIC, so there is no...

> > > @Jojo-Schmitz Found a problem with the build that came up. The `-fPIC` option is not supported on this platform. The platform default is PIC, so there is...

> > > > @Jojo-Schmitz Found a problem with the build that came up. The `-fPIC` option is not supported on this platform. The platform default is PIC, so there...

> > I think handling changes to `Makefile.in` with `PICFLAG` and any extension handling should be in a different pull request. > > All the context is here, I'd just...

I posted a change to deal with `-fPIC` and `-shared`. The removal of `-fPIC` works. The SHAREDFLAG value is not being picked up from my "tandem" section - don't know...

The package seems to work out now, including using `dlopen` for regression testing. Another potential improvement is to put in a switch to disable use of `dlopen` using a configuration...

| this doesn't look right to me. There are existing checks in configure.ac: | AC_CHECK_FUNCS([_getshort _getlong]) | AC_CHECK_DECLS([_getshort, _getlong], ... | Based on the comments here, I'd without your changes...

> > What's wrong here is that configure sets these to 1, but the declaration in header files is incompatible with what is in the body of code above, and...