Subject: Re: Importing symbols from .exe's
From: Jesper Eskilson <[email-masked]>
To: "Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Garrett Banuk" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Nov 2002 11:20:45 +0100

"Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Windows' dynamic loader isn't powerful enough to do what you want. 

This is "by design", not a limitation. The idea is that DLLs should be
self-containing and not require that the loading executable/module defines
certain symbols. This is why import libraries are used; to make sure all
symbols are resolved at link-time. As a result, Windows DLLs are not
allowed to contain unresolved symbols.

A much cleaner design, IMHO.

/Jesper
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Jesper Eskilson
Virtutech     
http://www.virtutech.com

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