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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:04:13 +0200
From: Diego Zuccato <dz AT bo DOT dada DOT it>
Organization: CyberSpace Software Labs BBS
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Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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Mark Habersack wrote:

> > something like DJGPP's DXEs could be the right thing...
> Well... not quite. DXEs were/are just a quick hack developed just to support a
> loadable 80x87 emulator support. They are limited to just one exported entry
> which makes them quite troublesome in more general use.
I developed a quite simple 'hack' to export/import many functions. Well,
import was not so simple (I had to use ASM to convert a vector of void*
to std lib ...

> I was thinking about creating a PE COFF loader for DLLs in that format? Comments?
I think something exists... A tool to generate DLLs. Sorry, I don't
remember its name :-(

BYtE,
 Diego