Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/04/21/15:14:21
Let me explain further...:)
I have taken the cygnus-b21 distribution and built a cross-compiler to
target an i386-Linux platform so I can
build applications on Windows 9x/NT that run on my Linux box. Now I would
really love to use a certain MMX-based
DLL from Intel (which source code is not provided) and run it on my Linux
box. I know that Linux executables are
ELF-32 format whereas Windows DLLs are quite a different beast. What I was
hoping to hear was some clever
person out there figured out how to load a Windows DLL to access the DLL
functions. Although the two executables
(a Linux program and DLL) are different, the underlying code is still
native to i386.
Terry
Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> on 04/21/99 11:53:24 AM
To: Terry Arden/Coreco Inc.
cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Using Microsoft DLL's in GNU C
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 terry AT logicalvision DOT com wrote:
> I would like to call functions from a Microsoft DLL in GNU C. In
> particular, I have cross-compiled a version of GNU C
> for a i386-Linux target (ELF32 executables) and would like to call
> Microsoft DLL functions from this environment. Has
> anyone tried this?
Hopefully I simply don't understand what you're trying to do; if I do
understand it, then it doesn't make any sense since Linux and Windows32
are two different OSs that you can't just mix and match binary code.
You may want to look at the Wine project (http://www.winehq.com/) where
such issues are dealt with in gory detail.
Regards,
Mumit
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