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Date: | Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:46:34 -0700 (PDT) |
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To: | Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: load a shared lib created using gcc/Cygwin |
From: | "Yu-Cheng Chou" <cycchou AT ucdavis DOT edu> |
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Hi, I want to load the cygwin1.dll with Visual Studio following the instruction from http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC102. But I can't find winsup/cygwin/how-cygtls-works.txt and the sample code in winsup/testsuite/cygload. So where can I find these files? Thanks > Yu-Cheng Chou wrote: > > > Can a shared library mylib.dll built using > > gcc -shared -o mylib.dll file.c > > be loaded dynamically at run time by function > > LoadLibrary("mylib.dll") in an application built using > > Visual C++ or .NET? > > I tried it in Windows XP with the latest version of > > gcc/Cygwin, the application will hang > > at LoadLibrary("mylib.dll"). > > If mylib.dll depends on cygwin1.dll then this will not work. To load > the Cygwin DLL dynamically requires special attention, as described in > the FAQ: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC102> and recent mailing > list > threads, as this is a very recent ability. > > If mylib.dll does not need functionality from Cygwin, then you should > compile it with -mno-cygwin, and it will be dynamically loadable without > extra care just like a standard windows DLL. More information about > this is at <http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/>. If you go this route you > are no longer using Cygwin so your questions should really be addressed > to the mingw list. > > Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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