From: Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT asim DOT lip6 DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: about .DXE
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:17:52 +0100
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P-Tar wrote:
> 
> >    I have to use the .DXE files some one of my purposes. How to create >a DXE. It's said that there's
> >a utility simple DXE in then faq.
> >    But there is not enough details about this aspect of djgpp.
> >    If someone know how to use it, it'll be greateful!
> 
> Yeah, the utility is called dxegen. You can find a basic dxe example
> in the "tests" distribution of djgpp.
> 
> Here are a few of the pitfalls I've managed to avoid when playing
> around with dxe :-)
> 
> If you intend to load the dxe from within a c++ program you'll have to
> surround the
> #include <sys/dxe.h>
> line by :
> extern "C" {
> }
> definitions or you'll get a weird _dxe_load unresolved symbol at link
> time.
> 
> If the dxe file contains unresolved symbols, it won't work. BUT I've
> found a workaround, which is to fully link the file you want to use as
> a dxe (so you get an exe) and use dxegen to export symbol main. This
> seems to work, but I guess it's really pushing dxe to its limits.
> Maybe I'll have to switch to this dlx library which sounds promising.
> 
> Patrice

	tell me about dlx. Will it be possible to unload the extension file?
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