From: billlanam AT california DOT com (Bill Lanam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: shared libraries
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:38:06 GMT
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:59:49 GMT, Nikita Proskourine <nproskou AT goucher DOT edu>
wrote:

>Has anybody implemented shared libraries for DJGPP under DOS?
>
>I mean, the rate at which my prog. image grows is just ridiculuous...
>.. and there's nothing I can do about it, because I know I use _lots_ of 
>functions from different libs and some of these functions are 
>interrelated and cause other stuff to get linked in...
>
>Or I could buy another hard drive.
>But then in a few months I'll be begging people for money to get myself 
>_ANOTHER_ hard drive.
>
>-- Nikita.
>
>
Shared libraries aren't used because DOS isn't a multiuser operating system like
Windows or Unix as such even if a shared library system for DOS was created the
vast majority of people would not have it since it is not part of DOS, can only
be used to reduce the size of your personal programs.

By the way dynamic linked libraries for DOS have been implemented before.

    Bill Lanam