[plt-scheme] Using a DLL with a extension (mzgtk2)

--- Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews at gawab.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I've moved a small part of the code (notably the type mappings
> and the administrative code for memory management) to a
> shared library.
> 
> On windows I'm getting into trouble. After moving this
> administrative code to a DLL, the binding crashes on the first
> request for memory management.
> 
> I think I somehow need to initialize the DLL for usage with the
> mzscheme garbage collector, but how should I do that?
> 
> Could somebody point me out how?

I don't know if this is what you mean, but have you tried the GLib
call to set up the memory allocation "vtable"? It should let you
force all GLib-related functions to use mzscheme's memory allocation
functions.

Look at GMemVTable and g_mem_set_vtable() in:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#GMemVTable

Hope that helps,
Ryan


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