Re: Run time linking a .dll into a .exe

[Danny Smith <danny_r_smith_2001 at yahoo dot co dot nz>]

 --- Glen Ozymok <ozymok@hotmail.com> wrote: > I want to create some
plugins for an executable.
> The problem is that when I create a plugin
> (.dll, shared object, or whatever you want to call it),
> it sucks in code that is already in the executable.
> In other words, I link the executable with some static
> library, libfoo.a, and the executable gets routines from
> libfoo.a. I then link the dll, and it gets some of the same
> routines.
> 
> Normally this would be annoying since you have code
> duplication, but would work. However, if the code
> contains static variables, then the executable and the
> dll have their own versions of the static, which get out
> of sync.
> 
> Is there a way to link the dll so that it uses the code
> inside the executable?
> 

The safest way is to make libfoo.a into a dll. and link against that to get
your static variable.  That way there is one and only one copy of the
variable, living in the dll.  See the C++ code in a recent version of the
dllhelpers examples.

BTW, a very similar problem occurs when throwing exceptions across dll/exe
boundaries when the eh code lives in a static lib (say libgcc.a).

Danny

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