Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 16:23:02 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: dliu AT faraday-gw DOT njit DOT edu
Cc: OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: RE: coff format?

> 
> BTW, I even tried use it under linux, the dlltest worked very well, so I
> guess it is trival to run a djgpp program under linux, as long as it
> only use the stdio functions. But I doubt how useful is this.

You can *compile* djgpp-based sources under most POSIX operating
systems with little trouble, provided the sources themselves use only
POSIX functions.

> Oh, there is an another question, I don't know how a program can use a
> global variable in dll.

I've never figured out how to manage that either, otherwise djgpp
would have been using shared libraries a long time ago :-)