Re: Shared library on MinGW

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, John Pye wrote:
> >
> The code that loads the plugins is at the link below. It's really old, but I 
> have been cleaning it up. On Windows the loading is done with LoadLibrary. 
> But this doesn't matter! My problem is that GCC on MinGW won't let me compile 
> my library with the unresolved symbols.

In that case, design your software so that it does not depend on 
unresolved symbols being magically resolved at run-time.  A cleanly 
designed shared library should be able to fully resolve all symbols at 
link time.  Its proper behavior should not depend on what has been 
loaded into the running program at the particular point in time it is 
used.  Cross-platform portability requires that some compromises be 
made.

Bob
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