From: Mark Poolman <mgpoolman AT brookes DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: dlls with djgpp
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:44:31 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
> DJGPP doesn't support shared libraries.  There is a limited facility,
> called DXE, for dynamic loading of simple code modules, but it's a far
> cry from shared libraries.  See section 22.14 of the FAQ for more
> details about DXE.
>

This looked hopeful, but when I try :

  dxegen MyLib.dxe _MyFunc MyLib.o

The result is :

    ld -X -S -r -o dxe__tmp.o -Lc:/root/gnu/lib MyLib.o  -T dxe.ld
    Error: input file has more than one section; use -M for map


MyFunc() returns a pointer to a largish struct, which in turn contains
various pointers to functions and variables. There are no static and no
external references/declarations. The source is c++, but doesn't contain any
class information. This was compiled with gxx, without optimisation or other
fancy flags. The file dxe__tmp.o exists and appears to be a valid 80386
COFF executable version 30821.


>
> There are two optional packages written for DJGPP which allow more
> versatile dynamic code loading.  Look in section 22.3 of the FAQ for
> DLM and DLX.

Both these links appear to be broken.

Thanks for your help so far,

Best regards

Mark