[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Use libunrar when available (2nd try)

[Zuxy Meng]

i,

2006/6/22, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:55:02PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Thanks! How about this one?
>
> Can you explain why on earth we would want to use dlopen at all rather
> than just linking correctly?
>

Chiefly a consideration for package maintainers. As discussed in a
previous thread, libunrar.so is quite unpopular, absent in most
distros. dlopen makes those who use mplayer binary packages happy,
because they only have to build & copy libunrar.so to somewhere sane,
without recompiling the whole mplayer.

Same is true for Windows users. And RARLab distribute unrar.dll and
unrar.a binaries, but there's no libunrar.dll.a.

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