On 20 November 2007 13:58, Alain Frisch wrote: > Dear Cygwin and MinGW mailing lists, > > I'd like to announce the availability of FlexDLL, a new tool that should > greatly help porting some Unix applications under Windows. FlexDLL > implements the classical POSIX dlopen API. In short, it lets you create > DLLs with unresolved symbols.
> Feedback and comments are very welcome! This looks very interesting indeed. The technique of turning unresolved imports into data items that can be fixed up at runtime thus letting the windows runtime loaded accept the dll is a clever trick, and it occurs to me that it might be worth adopting the same technique directly in the binutils toolchain itself. Thanks for your valuable contribution! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/