Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00a501c1a849$88625830$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: "Stephano Mariani" Cc: References: <000901c1a817$5b932a50$01000001 AT sknet01> Subject: Re: [URGENT] dlopen question Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:17:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > I recently discovered (to my horror) that the RTLD_* options (in > /usr/include/dlfcn.h) seem to just be dummy placeholders in cygwin, > due to the utterly feeble shared library/dll model under windows. > > The cygwin sources appear to have wrapped the dl{open,sym,close} > calls around the windows equivalents (LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress, > and FreeLibrary). > > Is there a way to simulate the dlopen(soname,RTLD_GLOBAL) call under > windows? > I really require this (or equivalent) functionality. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated... libltdl supports loading of Windows DLLs. The version we are using in kde-cygwin seems to work well. Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/