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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:46:26 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: making .so files...
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Jason Pyeron wrote:

> I am not sure if this can be done on windows but here it goes.
> 
> I am working with the Asterisk application, it uses "modules" these are
> .so files which are linked against the main executable.
> 
> Asterisk will load a module, which may or may not make use of code
> exported by the main executable.
> 
> Is this two way DLL allowed under windows? Restated, can a DLL call code
> from the main executable?

This gets asked regularly.  You should search the archives.  This is the
last one that I remember, and it was just a few weeks ago:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00875.html

Yes, it's possible.  But there are some drawbacks.

Brian

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