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Explicitly reference find-library in alien docs 

Factor 0.98 added a great find-library library, but unless you already know it
exists, you're probably not going to discover it.  This attempts to help with
that by adding a few cross-references with the add-library word and the main
alien article.
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Benjamin Pollack 2015-02-11 07:21:50 -05:00 committed by John Benediktsson
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! Copyright (C) 2009 Slava Pestov.
! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
USING: accessors alien alien.syntax assocs help.markup
help.syntax io.backend kernel namespaces strings ;
USING: accessors alien alien.libraries.finder alien.syntax
assocs help.markup help.syntax io.backend kernel namespaces
strings ;
IN: alien.libraries
HELP: make-library
@ -44,13 +45,17 @@ HELP: load-library
HELP: add-library
{ $values { "name" string } { "path" string } { "abi" "one of " { $link cdecl } " or " { $link stdcall } } }
{ $description "Defines a new logical library named " { $snippet "name" } " located in the file system at " { $snippet "path" } " and the specified ABI. The logical library name can then be used by a " { $link POSTPONE: LIBRARY: } " form to specify the logical library for subsequent " { $link POSTPONE: FUNCTION: } " definitions." }
{ $description "Defines a new logical library named " { $snippet "name" } " located in the file system at " { $snippet "path" } " and the specified ABI. You can find the location of the library via " { $link find-library } ". The logical library name can then be used by a " { $link POSTPONE: LIBRARY: } " form to specify the logical library for subsequent " { $link POSTPONE: FUNCTION: } " definitions." }
{ $notes "Because the entire source file is parsed before top-level forms are executed, " { $link add-library } " must be placed within a " { $snippet "<< ... >>" } " parse-time evaluation block."
$nl
"This ensures that if the logical library is later used in the same file, for example by a " { $link POSTPONE: FUNCTION: } " definition. Otherwise, the " { $link add-library } " call will happen too late, after compilation, and the C function calls will not refer to the correct library."
$nl
"For details about parse-time evaluation, see " { $link "syntax-immediate" } "." }
{ $examples "Here is a typical usage of " { $link add-library } ":"
{ $code
"<< \"sqlite\" \"sqlite3\" find-library cdecl add-library >>"
}
"You can also explicitly specify the library name by platform, if you prefer:"
{ $code
"<< \"freetype\" {"
" { [ os macosx? ] [ \"libfreetype.6.dylib\" cdecl add-library ] }"