[PD-dev] dlopen() for windows

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
> Subject: [PD-dev] dlopen() for windows
> To: "pddev List" <pd-dev at iem.at>
> Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 12:37 PM
> 
> August just brought this potentially handy piece of
> software to my attention:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/dlfcn-win32/
> 
> Basically, it allows you to use dlopen() to access the
> native Win32 calls.  Or in their words:
> "This library implements a wrapper for dlfcn, as specified
> in POSIX and SUS, around the dynamic link library functions
> found in the Windows API."
> 
> We are including it into the MinGW build system, so
> potentially, Pd code could use only dlopen() and work on all
> platforms.
> 
> .hc
> 
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> 
> Access to computers should be unlimited and total.  -
> the hacker ethic
> 
> 
> 

'libtool' implements a nice interface for dynamic loading, and the
interface is cross-platform.

Regards,
  Sergei.