How to install "libgncmod*.dll" to bin/?

[Christian Stimming]

Am Thursday 20 May 2010 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Tao Wang wrote:
> > ./gnucash-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-qof.so.1:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
> > 
> > So, I have 2 questions:
> > 
> > 1) should we just change all "pkglib_LT*" to "lib_LT*" in Makefile.am?
> > which will build everything to lib/ and in Windows installation
> > script, they are automatically copied to bin/
> > 2) Not change "pkglib_" prefix, and installed all "libgncmod*.dll" to
> > bin/ on Windows only. But how to do that? Modify configure.ac? or
> > packaging/win32/install.sh(or dist.sh)?
> 
> Neither will work because the gnc-module code will explicitly look for the
> modules in a lib/gnucash subdirectory.
> 
> The only clean solution I see is to complete the modularization of gnucash.
> The basics are there, but it is not finished.

Actually I propose the opposite direction: The problem is that the 
architecture was intended to be used in a modular way, but since there isn't a 
real benefit for the developer (except for the optional modules hbci, ofx, 
aqbanking), over time the developers blurred the distinction between shared 
objects intended as modules and shared objects intended as shared libraries. 
The outcome is our current situation: Some shared modules link into other 
modules "as if" they were shared libraries, and won't work if they are not 
reachable in the library path.

Because of this, I propose to instead remove the modularization of gnucash 
(except for the abovementioned optional modules) and instead link everything 
just as normal shared libraries, or even link everything statically into the 
final gnucash executable. 

I've already discussed this here 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Cutecash#No_Plugin_Framework and my conclusions 
are still the same. The modularization into plugin modules is artificial and 
doesn't offer any benefit for neither the user nor the developer. Hence it 
should be removed.

Regards,

Christian