Re: [Rd] Problem building DLL under Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Jon Senior
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:36:00 -0400 Simon Urbanek wrote: > That is true only for very specific architectures and OS combinations > but not on most systems (including Linux). Shared objects must be > compiled to contain position-independent code (PIC) such that they can > be re-located when lo

Re: [Rd] Problem building DLL under Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
Jon, On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:18 , Jon Senior wrote: Apologies if this has appeared before, but I've searched the archives and all the documentation and I can't find anything which helps. I'm trying to build a DLL under windows. The process (more on that later) works fine under Linux and gi

[Rd] Problem building DLL under Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Jon Senior
Apologies if this has appeared before, but I've searched the archives and all the documentation and I can't find anything which helps. I'm trying to build a DLL under windows. The process (more on that later) works fine under Linux and gives the illusion of working under Windows, but attempting