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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:06:51 +0200
From: Jani Tiainen <jani DOT tiainen AT keypro DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: DLL and external symbols
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Jani Tiainen wrote:

> Larry Hall wrote:
> 
>> At 04:35 PM 12/30/2003, Jani Tiainen you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm sure that this has been answered several times, but I'll ask 
>>> again because couldn't find any solution by myself.
>>>
>>> I would like to build DLL (or any other sort of library) that refers 
>>> to external symbols in main application.
>>>
>>> Now how I can get this working, or is it possible at all?
>>
>> It's possible but you have to move "funcInMain()" into the DLL with 
>> "funcInMyLib()" or into another DLL.  That's the straight-forward answer.
> 
> Yes, that one I knew already. Problem isn't actually function, in my 
> real case it's more like having some globals that libraries should be 
> able to read.

There exists one, non-libtool solution to similiar problem:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2002-10/msg00145.html

Now, how to libtoolize this solution?


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