Re: [ANN] dllhelpers-0.2.8 available

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

Thank you, Chuck, for responding so quickly to this problem.

I'm sorry that my recent cygwin/XP/cygheap "solution" essentially caused
you some extra work.

cgf

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:22:41PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>I've updated the dllhelpers package at cygutils
>
>http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/dll-stuff/
>
>The new version no longer uses the '--enable-auto-image-base' function 
>of the linker; it seems to cause problems under cygwin.  Instead, 
>DLL-builders should either
>
>  a) don't specifiy any image base -- just let the linker use its 
>default of 0x10000000.  Thus, all DLLs will have the same image base, 
>and the windows runtime linker will relocate them when an application 
>loads them.  However, they won't then conflict with the cygwin1.dll 
>(which is absolutely required).  Also, runtime relocation is relatively 
>inexpensive on windows.
>
>  b) explicitly specify an image base for every DLL you build (be 
>careful!).  -Wl,--image-base=0xXXXXXXXX.
>
>this is explained in the updated documentation within the dllhelpers 
>package.
>
>Also, I've added a "c_and_c++" example, with two DLL's -- one C-based 
>and one C++based -- which are both used by a single C++ client application.

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