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To:	Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Link windows DLL with Cygwin application?? Urgent!!
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Eric Lilja wrote:

> RJ wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am quite new to Cygwin. I am trying to compile my linux application
> > under Cygwin running on Win XP. I need to link my application to a
> > third party DLL. I don't have the source codes for the DLL. How do i
> > do it?
>
> LoadLibrary()/GetProcAddress() doesn't work?

LoadLibrary is needed only for really dynamic linking.  For .so-style
linking, just put the DLL on the command line, like a library (e.g.,

gcc main.o somelib.dll

).
HTH,
	Igor
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