Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/10/01/15:36:34
rjf1 AT stirling DOT ac DOT uk (Robin Faichney) wrote:
>I tried to email the dll author with this, but it bounced due to the
>address (empty AT sans DOT vuw DOT ac DOT nz) not being recognised.
>Charles Sandmann (sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu) wrote:
>>> Some people have been asking about my dll stuff, and I was trying to
>>> remember where you made the zipfile available. What was the address
>>> if you still have it available?
>>ftp to riceng.rice.edu, username djgpp, password betatest, cd upload,
>>binary, get dll100.zip. Or something pretty close to that.
>You could maybe save me a lot of wasted time by answering one quick
>question: can I expect to be able to use DLL's created by djgpp and
>your package with Visual Basic, without a lot of trouble?
I DLed the package, and the DLLs seem most radically different to
Win/OS2 DLLs, for a start they're in COFF format!
But it's clearly been modelled on Win/OS2 DLLs, coz there's an
"implib" utility.
It looks pretty cool, but I can't make it work! I had to modify the
implib utility - it cried about a reference to __crt0_startup_flags
and that ___bss_count thing, so I found a section of
similarly-intended variables that implib was told not to worry about
(go32_information_block etc).
Then it compiled and GPFed consistently when trying to link the test
DLL!
Judging from the first problem, we have a version incompatibility
(__ctr0_startup_flags being a V2 thing, I believe).
Regards,
ABW
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