X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:41:09 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Lilja cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Link windows DLL with Cygwin application?? Urgent!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/