> Thorsten Froehlich schrieb:
> 
>> verjigorm wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I already downloaded the code. Just wanted to check if any 
>>> extension
>>> already exists and if a feature like library support is going to be 
>>> added
>>> some day.
>>
>>  > Sounds like a good idea to me, you know like in MATLAB for instance.
>>
>> No, it is an extremely bad idea as it is not portable and all this has 
>> been explained several times in these groups.  It is never going to be 
>> added to any official version of POV-Ray.
> 
> 
> I would like to ask why this would be not portable? Any platform POVRay 
> runs on should support dynamic loading. Or does POVRay compiles under 
> plain DOS?
> 
> For my self I don't have any application to use such an interface off 
> POVRay because my .pov's are written from another programm or by hand. 
> It's only a technical question.

Dynamic loading and linking is not standardised across platforms. Each 
OS has it's own way of loading an external module and "fixing up" the 
procedure addresses.

-- 
~Mike

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