> >>That would be great, so how does one do that? > >> > >> > > > >Note that I didn't say it would be trivial, nor that I know exactly how > >to actually do it:-) I merely said that having observed how system > >components [e.g. KERNEL32] are linked there seem to be a way to achieve > >this [noble] goal. Step in the direction would be to understand exactly > >*why* it's not possible to interchange /MD and /MDd versions. The > >conclusion might be hard to accept. As it might turn out that the only > >way is to break dependency from MSVCRT, but the catch is that it's > >MSVCRT stands for stdio.h, malloc.h and string.h. malloc.h and string.h > >are relatively easy to replace (e.g. by linking with the static LIBC), > >but probably not stdio.h (linking it statically probably won't work as > >it most likely will interfere with another copy of stdio and one most > >likely will have to implement some ascetic replacement). A. > > > > > > > What you do is not link to a run-time library and instead use the equivalent > versions provided by the Windows kernel as defined in WinBase.h.
That's exactly what I was referring to when mentioned "breaking dependancy from MSVCRT." > For file operations you use: > > _lopen > _lcreat I would object to this, as this interface "is provided *only* for compatibility with 16-bit versions of Windows." > Basically, we would approach this by implementing > our own run-time library which is in turn implemented in base OS > functions. That's why I wrote that it "might be hard to accept," because it's really the last thing we want to do, implement own run-time environment, isn't it? But note that there *are* system DLL which are linked with MSVCRT.DLL. E.g. CRYPT32.DLL imports string functions and malloc/free, while WS32_32.DLL imports fopen, fclose, fgets and some string functions... How does it work there? A. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
