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Re: libtooldl
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: libtooldl
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:24:47 -0400
- References: <005301c0222b$1b649a90$f7c723cb@lifelesswks>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:26:05PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>If I understand the dlopen issue correctly, no software that uses
>LoadLibrary() directly will work properly under cygwin due to MS wierdness?
LoadLibrary doesn't work correctly with fork(). That's it. It's not MS
weirdness, really. Microsoft surely didn't anticipate cygwin fork().
>so libtooldl (or whatever the libtool dl functions are prefixed with) won't
>work properly as they use LoadLibrary().
Sounds like it.
>I think that either LoadLibrary() should not be accessible from cygwin, or a
>wrapper should be written. (Sorry Chris, I'll just speak up and suggest
>_more_ work for you shall I?)
I'm not going to write a wrapper and I am certainly not going to eliminate
LoadLibrary().
As always, if someone else wants to do this, however, I'll gladly look into
a patch. Writing a wrapper for LoadLibrary will be pretty tricky, though.
cgf
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