From: "Jez Hill" <z3r AT iname DOT knkhbdjsf DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Creating a DLL
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 14:24:06 +0000
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In article <3897027a$0$19616 AT SSP1NO17 DOT highway DOT telekom DOT at>, "Florian X"
<dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii schrieb in Nachricht ...
>>You can't.  DJGPP doesn't support creating DLLs.
>
> Yes, you can!!!!!! There are some libs like DLX.
> Sorry,I don't know where DLX is.

DLX can be found at:
    http://nanosoft.hypermart.net/dlx.html

However, I don't think it does what Iain wants it to do (and what I want it
to do: I want to create a C-sourced DLL for use with MATLAB, which uses DLLs
in the same way as S-Plus).

DLX creates DLX files, rather than DLL files. As I understand it (correct me
if I'm wrong, somebody), the difference is that you need to compile the
loader program (the app that invokes the dynamic library) using calls to DLX
library routines. This we can't do since the apps in question, MATLAB and
S-Plus, aren't open-sourced.

Will DJGPP ever support the creation of DLLs?

Jez

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