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On 9/15/2017 9:51 AM, Gary Schneir wrote: > Thanks for the response but I am a little confused by it. If Cygwin is > supposed to provide POSIX API functionality and DLOPEN / DLSYM are > supported in CYGWIN, then I shouldn't care about the underlying > complexity or restrictions of running within the Windows environment and > using DLLs. The behavior should be the same as in other POSIX environments. > You presented your case well and I was waiting on someone familiar with the code to respond. I'm not sure that would be Kaz, he was just trying to be helpful from his experiences. I agree with your surmise that Cygwin should perform similar results as Linux in this case. > > If you are saying that I did not include some sort of > __declspec(dllexport) directive in my code so that it can find my > symbols, that is something else but you indicate that you think cygwin > hides that complexity in shared libraries. > Actually it would be binutils, regardless of Cygwin or MinGW, that is trying to hide the complexity of needing to supply the __declspec([export|import]) declarations. The logic for that is a bit confusing but if none is given then all symbols are exported. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
