From:	Morten Skaarup Jensen <msj AT oedan DOT dk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DLL in djgpp???
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:49:10 +0100
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Browsing through the newsgroup trying to find out how best to create DLL's from
C-files, I stumbled in on this discussion and would like to contribute my
opinions.

If DLL's were implemented in GJGPP I cannot see that we should have to lose the
static libraries, and therefore the only argument that I can come up with against
DLL's is the work involved in implementing this facility (which I agree may well
be enough for it not to be done), since one can always refrain from using the
facility if one finds it disadvantagoeous.

Apart from saving disk space and to a lesser extent memory, there is also a need
for DLL's if one wants to include C-code in GUI's written in Visual Basic or
Tcl/Tk . This is my interest in being able to produce DLL's, and I would prefer
to be able to do it with my favourite C/C++ compiler - namely DJGPP.

Morten

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