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Re: Linking to commercial dll's
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: David Westbury <David dot Westbury at ipaper dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:22:31 -0500
- Subject: Re: Linking to commercial dll's
- References: <OF8B6193A7.B4A10832-ON85256AFF.004E05C7@ipaper.com>
David Westbury wrote:
>
> Dll's seem to be an especially difficult subject in cygwin, requiring
> detailed knowlege of the MS way of doing things.
Unfortunately, yes.
> Are dll's not
> standardized?
Unfortunately, no.
> Is a "cookbook" approach to dll linking not possible?
Not yet. Soon this will be possible, but not quite yet (we're still
waiting for the final piece, libtool-with-autoimport-support). Work is
progressing.
> The
> issue seems to be a steep hill for an average working programmer, like
me,
> to climb.
Yep. I'm afraid that right now, you must actually learn some new
stuff. Eventually it will be turnkey, but not yet.
See http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/dll-stuff
--Chuck
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