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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:22:31 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: David Westbury <David DOT Westbury AT ipaper DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Linking to commercial dll's
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David Westbury wrote:

> 
> Dll's seem to be an especially difficult subject in cygwin, requiring
> detailed knowlege of the MS way of doing things.

Unfortunately, yes.

> Are dll's not
> standardized? 

Unfortunately, no.

> Is a "cookbook" approach to dll linking not possible? 

Not yet.  Soon this will be possible, but not quite yet (we're still
waiting for the final piece, libtool-with-autoimport-support).  Work is
progressing.

> The
> issue seems to be a steep hill for an average working programmer, like
me,
> to climb. 

Yep.  I'm afraid that right now, you must actually learn some new
stuff.  Eventually it will be turnkey, but not yet.

See http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/dll-stuff 

--Chuck

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