X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:13:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Announce: FlexDLL, flexible DLLs under Windows Message-ID: <20071121171342.GA26737@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4742E7F7 DOT 8000400 AT frisch DOT fr> <057201c82b84$98ee9870$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <4744578C DOT 3050109 AT frisch DOT fr> <000e01c82c5b$23d86750$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000e01c82c5b$23d86750$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:25:31PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >On 21 November 2007 16:07, Alain Frisch wrote: > >> (Altough at this point, one >> could also imagine that Cygwin supports another binary format for >> dynamic libraries, e.g. ELF, which can deal with unresolved symbols >> natively.) > > > Not an unreasonable idea, but very hard to make work when we really want >cygwin apps to basically be windows apps; I can't see how cygwin could support >e.g. an ELF loader and yet still be able to launch cygwin apps from cmd.exe >rather than having to fire up bash or whatever. It could theoretically do that if it had it's own loader for ELF binaries. cgf -- 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/