I would like to make parts of my application optional so as to reduce its overall size when user with small machines don't need all the features. Under CW 9.3, can I create such modules or plugins PRC's that I could call from my application as if they were linked together? Shared libraries seem an alternative, despite their limitations (no globals). Are there other alternatives?
Well, you could make a multi-segment application and then use external utilities like PAR to move some of the segments to other PRC files. You'd have to make your own customized runtime library that would open and lock the other code databases, if they were present, before performing the startup code. This wouldn't be a true plugin mechanism, but would let people drop features at installation time.
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