What about creating 2 seperate, hidden applications. Each is linked to a different version of the static lib, and each responds to launch codes to call functions in the static lib it is linked with. Then your main app simply sends launch codes to either of the 2 apps... Would that work??
Gavin. Michael Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:99380@;palm-dev-forum... > > Hi, > I've got two different versions of a static library that I licensed from > another company, and I'm trying to find a way to call into both of them from > a single Palm OS application. Directly linking both of them won't work, > since their function names are identical and I end up only linking > successfully to one or the other. I've also tried compiling each of them > into its own shared library (with some wrapper code for each function), but > for some reason this seems to make it impossible for them to access their > static data, so as soon as one of them tries to load its data files it ends > up calling DmFindDatabase with a null string for a filename; I've managed to > fix this by temporarily trap-patching a few of the database functions (so > that they would come up with the correct strings themselves), but that's > very hackish and won't work in OS5 anyway. I even went so far as to open up > one of the libraries in a hex editor and manually change the function names > (without altering the name lengths, of course), but the linker couldn't find > any of the newly-renamed functions when I tried to link it and the other, > unaltered library into the same project. And I can't just wrap each library > in an application file and work out something with SysAppLaunch, because the > libraries use their own globals. > Does anyone know of any way that I can actually use these two libraries > at the same time without creating two different versions of my application? > Is there some way to get rid of that static data problem in my shared > libraries? Or is there a way I can successfully pull off the hex editing > trick? I'm using CodeWarrior now, but can switch to prc-tools if necessary > to make this work... > > Many thanks, > > Michael Love > Pleco Software > > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
