On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.bruc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/25 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>: >> according to the wikipedia entry on dlls, dlls do not support data, >> only functions. > > What do you mean by "not support data"? Having global data variables in a dll? > In wikipedia, it is explicitely told that this is possible to have > data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic-link_library). Without > them, shared library cannot be used.
Indeed. That's why the header files contain define PyAPI_DATA(RTYPE) extern __declspec(dllexport) RTYPE define PyAPI_DATA(RTYPE) extern __declspec(dllimport) RTYPE -- Curt Hagenlocher c...@hagenlocher.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
