Garrett Banuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. We are trying to build a library that references symbols from > an executable. How it works is the executable loads up and then loads > the dynamic library. The library can then implicitly reference > symbols inside the executable. This works fine under Linux and > Solaris. > > Under Cygwin I am having problems building this library. I get the > error "undefined reference to `XXX`" for all the symbols. The library > has no problem resolving symbols that are in other libraries, but > fails on the symbols in the executable. > > So how do I build this library? The symbols can not be resolved until > runtime when the executable loads up the library. Thanks.
Windows' dynamic loader isn't powerful enough to do what you want. I think that Apache takes the approach of putting the symbols that need to be shared into a second library, which the original program and library both import. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
