if not modules then modules = { } end modules ['libs-imp-foreign'] = {
    version   = 1.001,
    comment   = "companion to luat-imp-foreign.mkxl",
    author    = "Hans Hagen, PRAGMA-ADE, Hasselt NL",
    copyright = "PRAGMA ADE / ConTeXt Development Team",
    license   = "see context related readme files"
}

-- See libs-imp-foreign.mkxl for some comments.

local report = logs.reporter("foreign")

local libname  = "foreign"
----- libfile  = "libffi-7"
local libfile  = "libffi*"
----- libfile  = "d:/inkscape/bin/libffi-7.dll" -- libffi*

local libforeign = resolvers.libraries.validoptional(libname)

if package.loaded[libname] then
    return package.loaded[libname]
end

local function okay()
    -- Don't worry, when one overloads this flag the engine will abort with an
    -- error message anyway, but it's less nice.
    if not status.permit_loadlib then
        report()
        report("opening foreign libraries is not enabled")
        report()
        os.exit()
    elseif libforeign and resolvers.libraries.optionalloaded(libname,libfile) then
        okay = function() return true end
    else
        okay = function() return false end
    end
    return okay()
end

local foreignload = libforeign.load

local foreign = {
    types     = libforeign.types,
    abivalues = libforeign.abivalues,
    totable   = libforeign.totable,
    newbuffer = libforeign.newbuffer,
    getbuffer = libforeign.getbuffer,
    load      = function(name)
       if okay() then
           local fullname = resolvers.findlib(name)
           if fullname and fullname ~= "" then
               return foreignload(fullname)
           else
               -- report an error
           end
       end
    end,
}

-- In due time I'll add the struct and array methods using Lua 5.4 features.

package .loaded[libname] = foreign
optional.loaded[libname] = foreign

return foreign