Hi, thanks Henning for responding!
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:12:04PM +0200, Franz Bakan wrote: > > to make dynamic loading of backend-dlls work on OS/2 > > there is a patch needed. Could someone please commit? > > So currently there is no dynamic loading on OS/2? Only a shared big > dll backend with all backends preloaded or even a statically linked > frontend? Yes, currently no dynamic loading, only a shared big libsane.dll with all backends preloaded, but I found a way how I get it working. > > Drawback on OS/2 is that the backend.dll names have a length > > limitation. IIRC they have to be 8.3 > > Doses someone has a suggestion for a workaround? > > You could try to write some Makefile/shell script code that only gets > active on OS/2 and shortens the filename of the libs (e.g. by removing > "sane-" from "libsane-" or if that works on OS/2 even removing the > "lib". That will probably break shared linking of those libs. Yes this is of course possible but it works only for backends with max 8 character length. The question is what to do with the rest (in an automatic way) > Are there links on OS/2? Could you use a link with a short name > pointing to the longer name lib? No, there are no links. > > *** dll.c Mon Jan 5 23:25:16 2004 > > --- g:dll.c Wed Apr 21 01:49:36 2004 > > *************** > > *** 308,313 **** > > --- 308,317 ---- > > # undef PREFIX > > # define PREFIX "cygsane-" > > # define POSTFIX "-%u.dll" > > + #elif defined (HAVE_OS2_H) > > + # undef PREFIX > > + # define PREFIX "" > > + # define POSTFIX ".dll" > > # else > > # define POSTFIX ".so.%u" > > # endif > > If that's all I don't mind applying it as it doesn't cause problems on > other platforms and on OS/2 I guess oyu know what you are doing :-) Yes that's all, thanks for comitting. Ciao, Franz -- "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen! Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info
