Subject: Re: [URGENT] dlopen question
From: "Chris January" <[email-masked]>
To: "Stephano Mariani" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:17:10 -0000

> I recently discovered (to my horror) that the RTLD_* options (in
> /usr/include/dlfcn.h) seem to just be dummy placeholders in cygwin,
> due to the utterly feeble shared library/dll model under windows.
>
> The cygwin sources appear to have wrapped the dl{open,sym,close}
> calls around the windows equivalents (LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress,
> and FreeLibrary).
>
> Is there a way to simulate the dlopen(soname,RTLD_GLOBAL) call under
> windows?
> I really require this (or equivalent) functionality.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated...
libltdl supports loading of Windows DLLs. The version we are using in
kde-cygwin seems to work well.
Regards
Chris

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