Re: Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > That's not allowing me to simply dl() an SO file, because I don't have the > > SO file to start with - that's what I was trying to get at. If I have > > to reconfigure > > everything, there's not much point, I don't think. Unless I'm missing > > something > > obvious. I'd like to be able to simply have an SO file I can dl() > > without recompiling. > > Or are you saying that that configure statement WILL create an SO file > > that can > > be dl()ed later, without recompiling PHP? > > Exactly. When you do ./configure --with-foo=shared; make > then modules/foo.so will appear magically and you can dl() that or load it > using "extension=foo.so" in your php.ini. You don't have to recompile > PHP. > > -Rasmus I am afraid that is only theory. I tried that for the snmp module and all I get is a linker error about unreferenced symbols, when I try to load it. Heiko