Why don't you use libdl/libltdl?

Versions prior to 1.0 used libdl/libltdl, and that made types and functions much easier to use, since you didn't have to define DICE_Functions and DICE_Types. Types were registered only when a variable of that type was created, saving memory.

The problem is that libltdl is not 100% portable. Although I successfully tested in Linux x86 and IRIX, Windows needed Cygwin to run. To tell you the truth, I didn't care too much, but other people did. ;-) So, I decided to get rid of libltdl by default, leading to a more cumbersome library. I believe that Windows LoadLibrary functions could be used instead.

If you don't need to run your programs in Windows and would like to use libltdl, run ``configure -with-ltdl''^9.1. Here are the differences:

• DICE_Functions and DICE_Types variables are ignored.
• Types are automatically registered when you declare a new variable (with DICE_sync_new or DICE_async_new). The caveat is that, if your type is foo, the functions must be called foo_pack, foo_unpack and foo_free.
• Functions are automatically found, you don't have to do anything else.

In theory, programs compiled with libltdl should be able to talk with programs compiled without it.