From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: problems with linker 7 Sep 1997 21:55:36 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199709070706.RAA12055.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19970905153053.19745@bsilx2.iitb.fhg.de> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: aj@dungeon.inka.de Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Andreas Jellinghaus writes: >i have big problems with the dynamic linker : >there is a function Pof_Create that creates a linked list of type void*. >we have a static table mOblist with entry Create, to typecast this to >the right type, so we don't need to typecast with every function call. >The items in this list should have the addresses of the Pof_ functions. > >when i link my program (calling the functions in this struct) static with the >library (the struct and all functions are in this library), everything >works ok. but if i create a simple or a relocable dll and link with the dll, >the struct has bad values and i get segmentation faults. If you're accessing a DLL's global or static variables from outside the DLL, then some additional work is needed. See . P.S. For anyone already using the Makefile.DLLs from that WWW page, I recently updated that with a patch from Sergey, so the main program no longer needs to explicitly set the DLL's impure_ptr. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".