On 12/28/2020 2:39 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint,
am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 10:59 schrieben Sie:
On 12/27/2020 10:54 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hey, all! Just a question I've never seen addressed here - or anywhere
else, for that matter.
Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library
under MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DOS
had... what, exactly? In all my years DOSsing I've never heard of
anything official like this, so I'm pretty sure there was no such
thing (unless you count a TSR, but that's not really what I'm after)
but I figured it doesn't hurt to ask you folks, as you have more years
under various flavors of DOS than I.
Any constructive feedback would be appreciated! :D
Well, it is very simple. There is no such thing under DOS...
This almost would have been my answer as well.
But I recently learned
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=17354
that there exists Borland BGI (Borland Graphics Interface) drivers
that are arguably equivalent to DLLs (for Borland compilers) as they
are separately compiled binaries.
So this is not a DOS, but Borland standard.
I know of no other example of this.
Yeah, that came to my mind too, but then it is commonly referred to as
drivers, so it is a border line case of this kind of functionality, but
it is not a "shared runtime library under DOS"...
Ralf
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