From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Xavier Leroy" <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>, "Chris Hecker" <checker@d6.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlc linking loads dlls?
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:16:15 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009301c28c12$4dcee5a0$3c00a8c0@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021114160348.B9597@pauillac.inria.fr>
> > Why does ocamlc load dlls during linking?
>
> Just to make sure that all external C functions referenced from your
> Caml code are indeed defined in the DLLs you provide. Otherwise, the
> error would only be detected at run time, and earlier is better.
>
> > a) dlls that aren't in the path during build, and
> > b) dlls that do complex stuff in their dllmain.
>
> I agree b) is a bit of a problem, but I don't know of any portable way
> to test whether DLL x.dll defines symbol "foo" than to link x.dll and
> query the address of "foo".
That point can be resolved by calling LoadLibraryEx with the
DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCE flag.
According to MS docs, this prevent the call of DllMain.
Nicolas Cannasse
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 6:25 Chris Hecker
2002-11-14 15:03 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-14 18:21 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-14 20:16 ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2002-11-14 19:21 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-15 0:55 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-11-15 1:53 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-11-15 6:59 ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-15 7:07 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-11-15 8:00 ` Chris Hecker
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