On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:49:48PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >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!
Indeed, this is very interesting. It sounds a little like the autoload.cc code in Cygwin which handles optional linking from dlls but it is obviously much more advanced. cgf -- 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/