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From: "Stephen Dyke" <sk DOT ml AT btinternet DOT com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>,
        "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GetModuleHandleA AT 4
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:52:14 +0100
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> > Yes I did make some modifications and
> > looking to build a package for cygwin,
> > that could simply the overly complex
> > problem that is building a DLL.
> 
> I'm a little confused here. What's so complex about gcc -o
> foo.dll -shared foo.c ?
> 
> Rob

This is incorrect, the command you use does not create a relocation
section, and has many problems with windows 95 and win98 first
edition. furthermore, the dll would suffer from problems with
maintaining static variables and threading.

Stephen



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