[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:17 AM, cdr wrote:

>> so you can just use the native .so extension
>
> the point behind this (i hope its obvious) is so you dont have to  
> override the default extension in dlopen() and SCons..i cant think of  
> another cross-platform app that decided it needed to invent new  
> library extensions. can anyone name some?

The whole reason why this thread started was because of problems with  
using the native extension: My [hid] object cannot access hid.dll since  
the file names are the same.

Photoshop is an example of a program that uses a special,  
cross-platform extension for its extensions (.8ba).  QuickTime is  
another example. (.qtx).

Mac OS X's .bundle and .framework are examples of packaging .so  
differently.  So there are plenty of precedents.

.hc
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