Alright thanks, I get its purpose now. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 9:41 AM Michael Matz <matz....@frakked.de> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, UnknownGamer40464 wrote: > > > I see. I had assumed it was for unix compatibility but I guess not. > > > > Is it supposed to show up in the win32 tcclib.h file then? > > tcclib.h is a small convenience header that exists merely to show how a > minimal installation on unix-like systems could look like, i.e. it's a > replacement for a subset of standard headers. As such it declares a > couple functions and macros that are useful for simple standard C > programs. It might or might not declare more facilities than are actually > available on the system at hand, and noone bothered to add the #ifdef-ery > to make it declare only available things. Similarly it also doesn't > declare all facilities that are available on the system (for that you have > to use the standard headers). > > I.e. that it declares also dlfcn facilities is not an issue, though it > might lead to the expectation that those are available on Windows, and > hence confusion. The best way to avoid this is actually to simply not use > that header at all. > > > Ciao, > Michael. > > > > > It seems to be placed there by the win32 batch script, > > but indeed using dlfcn functions cause undefined symbol errors. > > > > Either way, sounds like a minor thing to me now. > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:02 AM Christian JULLIEN <eli...@orange.fr> > wrote: > > Hi, > > dlfcn provides declarations for functions dlopen/dlsym/dlclose that > > allow to dynamically load a shared lib at runtime on unix systems. > > Windows uses a similar but different interface to load DLL (which are > > different from .so shared libs). > > Hence, you don't need dlfcn.h on Windows. > > > > Systems like mingw/cygnwin add some unix compatibiliy on Windows. This > > is not the case with tcc which supports only C standard and most > > Windows API on Windows. > > > > C. > > > > > > > > Le : 14 juillet 2020 à 05:27 (GMT +02:00) > > De : "UnknownGamer40464" > > <modernwarfare3minecraf...@gmail.com> > > À : "tinycc-devel@nongnu.org" <tinycc-devel@nongnu.org> > > Objet : [Tinycc-devel] missing dlfcn.h but defined in > > tcclib.h, also missing RTLD_LOCAL > > > > > > Is there any reason dlfcn.h is missing (at least on > > windows) and yet its functions and macros > > are defined in tcclib.h, and that tcclib.h references it in a > > comment as if it were a file? > > > > I also noticed RTLD_LOCAL was missing but it seems like > > it should just be 0x000 since, according to oracle man pages, > > local is the default option. > > > > I see this on a windows build of 50abaae, which I'm using, and > > in windows mob. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tinycc-devel mailing list > > Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tinycc-devel mailing list > > Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > Tinycc-devel mailing list > Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel >
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