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From:	Andrew Cottrell <spam AT bigpond DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP doesn't support Dynamic Linking :(
Date:	Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:01:23 +1100
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>It does support dynamic linking.  It doesn't support shared libraries.
>
>> Altough I read DJGPP is for does DOS Extenstion (or
>> something)... Shouldn't it have Dynamic Linking?
>
>"shouldn't"?  There's no fundamental rule that says it needs to
>support dynamic linking.  However, we do have both DXEs and I think an
>old port of gnu dld somewhere.

If you do want to use DXE's then please grab the 2.04 alpha 1 release
as it has DXE v3 support, which is a big improvement.

To find out about the 2.04 status check out the following page:-
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/status204.html


Andrew

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