Re: TCP Wrappers

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Mostly correct.  Unfortnately, libwrap is bad.  It uses an int 
(allow_severity and deny_severity) that are expected to be defined in 
the application (so, tcpd.h says 'extern int allow_severity').

This is okay in a static lib, but not in a DLL.  instead, stuff must be 
changed around so that the library itself defines those variables, and 
exports them to the applications -- AND the applications must NOT 
declare them...which means patches to main() in tcpd, tcpdmatch, 
safe-finger, etc.

And sshd.

--Chuck

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:37:25PM -0500, Prentis Brooks wrote:
> 
>>I am willing to look into this, it currently does not use libtool, so I
>>have a lot of mods to make that happen, if I understood cgf right.
>>
> 
> I don't remember saying this.
> 
> It *should* be as simple as saying
> 
> gcc -Wl,--export-all-symbols -shared -o foo.dll -Wl,--out-implib,cygfoo.a *.o
> 
> but I guess it rarely is.
> 
> (I know the above is probably missing some crucial piece or other, I'm
> just vaguely showing how it should work.)
> 
> cgf
>