X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <4742E7F7.8000400@frisch.fr> <057201c82b84$98ee9870$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20071120154156.GA23663@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <6910a60711201039i1a5f114br2922598fa9781951@mail.gmail.com> Subject: RE: Announce: FlexDLL, flexible DLLs under Windows Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:44:43 -0000 Message-ID: <05c601c82ba5$6a2ea860$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <6910a60711201039i1a5f114br2922598fa9781951@mail.gmail.com> 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 20 November 2007 18:39, Reini Urban wrote: > 2007/11/20, Christopher Faylor: > ... >> Indeed, this is very interesting. It sounds a little like the >> autoload.cc code in Cygwin which handles optional linking from dlls but it >> is obviously much more advanced. > > Where should it go to? > Puttin it into libtool sounds nearest to me, to work around -no-undefined. (Without having actually specced out the implementation yet,) I don't see why we couldn't do this trick entirely in ld, with a support routine or two in libgcc. It can't go entirely into libtool, I would have thought; it requires some additional code at runtime. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/