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13.3.1 Automatic initialization

On Windows when automatic-init was true the initialization finishes before the Windows function LoadLibrary returns, and if LispWorks fails for some reason then the call to LoadLibrary fails too.

On other platforms when automatic-init was true, during the automatic initialization dlopen just causes the initialization to start and returns immediately. The initialization will finish sometime later. The LispWorks function LispWorksState can be used to check whether it finished initializing.

Automatic initialization is useful when the dynamic library is something like a server that does not communicate by function calls. On Windows it also allows LoadLibrary to succeed or fail according to whether the LispWorks dynamic library initialized successfully or not.


LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual - 22 Dec 2009

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