----Original Message---- >From: Jonathan Wilson >Sent: 20 May 2005 00:07
> On windows, it is possible to build a binary using a compiler on Windows > XP that can then run on older versions of windows simply by not using any > features specific to the newest versions of windows XP (or by using > LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress to see if those features are available or > not). Can you do the same thing on linux? Absolutely so, no problem: the equivalent functions are provided by the runtime dynamic linker (ld.so): http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/dlopen.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/dlsym.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
