Hi,
Sorry guys, but it seems to me you both mix Harbour.dll
with general purpose dll libraries used by a system.
So, what difference do you see between Harbour.dll and "general puporse
dll". Why Harbour.dll could not be a general puporse dll? What are
requirements for dll to be a general puporse?
It's not the case. The problem is C standard Runtime
library. Each C compiler has its own dynamic CRTL designed
and compiled for that compiler. Harbour uses C Runtime
library extensivly. If I would like to create and use
Harbour dll which uses *dynamic C Runtime library" I will
not be able to do so - following your aproach.
And in fact I do this. My HbWxW uses Harbour dll AND
dynamic CRTL (Borland build).
Not sure I've got your idea well... I'll try to ask a two questions:
1) Can we link static C RTL to harbour.dll? I mean all C RTL functions
like memcpy(), etc. will be inside inside harbour.dll, but not Borland's
cc3250.dll. This way our harbour.dll will be "self contained" it will
not depend on external borland's code.
2) If 1) is true, do we have any other problems to use BCC compiled
harbour.dll with another C compiler?
OK, I see some problems here. Some functions depends on structures
created by RTL, for example I guess we'll have GPF if we allocate memory
using Borland's malloc() (from harbour.dll) and free it using
Microsoft's free() (from main app). This should be solved by forcing
main app to use .dll hb_xgrab(), hb_xfree().
Or do you want to have a "final word" again ?
No need for final word. Final solution would be better.
Perhaps more problems could by found, but I really think there is a
solution for the problem. I used various .dll, for example: zlib.dll,
libcairo.dll, libmysql.dll, ace32.dll, gtk, MrSID, etc, etc. I did not
care that compiler it was compiled. I've used it from both GCC and
Borland. Original binary distribution very ofter come with COFF import
library (perhaps MSVC), but I've used Borland's implib.exe, and used
created import library with success.
Best regards,
Mindaugas
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