On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Peter Berg Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I might be missing something here: The only thing we see by compiletime is > > headerfiles. At runtime we try dlopen a library what we hope corresponce > > to the headerfiles. There is no garantee that it is.
> That's why we get the soname at compile time, and dlopen that. I dont follow you here? The soname comes from autoconf? (which compiles dummy.c and and looks at it with ldd) > It's not 100% foolproof, but it's the best we can do. But now if you > open a different library, all bets are off, it has no reason to be > compatible with the headers we used at compile time. The existence of headers and sonames (versions) are test independently in autoconf (which I would see as a bug if they werent compatible). I would agree with you allmost any time. But (of cause there is a but) we are only using functions that was standard pre waaay old and I did actually spend some time looking for functions/types etc. and nothing has changed. As we are not touching internal stuff, allocating structs or termcap/terminfo etc. I am convinced that they are binary compatible (and I ran wine with some of the oldes curses lib I could find). Peter
