Re: "load" on Windows

[Gisle Vanem]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > What about setting:
> >   ent->fptr.func_ptr = func;
> >
> > too?
>
> They are one and the same, since they are members of a union:
>
>  struct function_table_entry
>    {
>      union {
> char *(*func_ptr) (char *output, char **argv, const char *fname);
> char *(*alloc_func_ptr) (const char *fname, int argc, char **argv);
>      } fptr;

Okay, you're right. I didn't see the "union".

> Thanks.  Your problem is here:
>
> >   EXPORT int mk_test_gmk_setup (const gmk_floc *flocp)
> >   {
> >     gmk_add_function ("hello_world", hello_world, 0, 255, 0);
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Make functions cannot have the '_' character in their names, so it
> seems.  Here's why:

Ayyy!! > 1 day wasted on such a triffle. May I suggest more warnings
in define_new_function()? It works fine as "$(hello-world "Hello world").

> Btw, Gisle, I don't understand why you needed to use the EXPORT
> thingy, the DLL is compiled just fine without it, and only exports
> non-static variables and functions anyway. 

Right again. I was thinking more about making a DLL with MSVC.
(without any .def file).

Thanks again.

--gv