From: calder@stat.colostate.edu (Matt Calder) Subject: Re: About DLL's again 17 Apr 1997 20:54:19 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Authentication-Warning: tlaloc.stat.colostate.edu: calder owned process doing -bs Original-To: ij@usa.net Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ismael, Thank you for your thorough response, I appreciate this ,and your initial post for that matter. I have abandoned trying to get gcc to make universally loadable dlls, for whatever reason it doesn't work (see below for some conjecture), and I have found an alternative. The lcc compiler distributed by Jacob Navia will make dlls simply and without fuss. I have been using it all week and am extremely pleased. This should not be interpreted as a cut on Cygnus, there is room on my disk for several compilers. Now for some irresponsible hypothesizing. I suspect that part of the dll loading problem is coming from the way MSVC handles messages. I think the WM_COMMAND message starts a new thread so that the main window procedure can continue to process messages. I get this impression from the debug messages generated in MSVC. The LoadLibrary function fails when the call comes from within this thread. I don't know if any of this sounds reasonable, maybe it will lead someone to the right answer, for me its lcc for dlls. Matt /*****************************************/ /* Matt Calder, Dept. of Statistics, CSU */ /* http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~calder */ /*****************************************/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".