X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:41:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Link windows DLL with Cygwin application?? Urgent!!
In-Reply-To: <eo56v9$d95$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0701110939550.6616@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
References: <loom DOT 20070110T074522-162 AT post DOT gmane DOT org> <eo56v9$d95$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Eric Lilja wrote:

> RJ wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am quite new to Cygwin. I am trying to compile my linux application
> > under Cygwin running on Win XP. I need to link my application to a
> > third party DLL. I don't have the source codes for the DLL. How do i
> > do it?
>
> LoadLibrary()/GetProcAddress() doesn't work?

LoadLibrary is needed only for really dynamic linking.  For .so-style
linking, just put the DLL on the command line, like a library (e.g.,

gcc main.o somelib.dll

).
HTH,
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_	    pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!)
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		old name: Igor Pechtchanski
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"...  -- Janis Joplin

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/