[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 1:41 PM, cdr wrote:

>> er, right...
>>  "A similar limitation exists for modules with the same name but  
>> residing in different directories. For example, if LoadLibrary is  
>> called on \\Windows\Sample.dll, and then LoadLibrary is called on  
>> \\MyDir\Sample.dll, \\Windows\Sample.dll will simply be reloaded."
>
> however, it gets even more insane:
>
> "Two different modules cannot have the same file name, even if the  
> extensions are different. These effectively have the same module name.  
> For example, if LoadLibrary is made on Sample.cpl, the operating  
> system will not load Sample.cpl, but instead will again load  
> Sample.dll."
>
> does this not mean hid.pd_losedows will still reload hid.dll instead?  
> i guess you just can't win with Windows...

Yes indeed, this sounds like classic Microsoft.  Arcane APIs and  
arbitrary limitations.

So it sounds like .cpl is a also a .dll, which would be another example  
of a special file extension for a shared lib.  Hopefully the above rule  
only applies to Windows system files, like .cpl.  Otherwise, I'm  
screwed!

I knew there was a good reason why I tried to avoid programming on  
Windows...

.hc

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