Re: mingw32 DLL getting main args?

["Daniel C. Sinclair" <uf657 at victoria dot tc dot ca>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Mumit Khan wrote:

> I did take out the _argv and _argc code from DLL, but then I realized that
> the DLL will never be independent of the runtime, simply because there are
> calls to malloc/free within the compiler/language support library (libgcc),
> part of which is embedded in each executable and DLL.

My DLL imports __getmainargs() and NOTHING else. I modified dllcrt1.c,
crt1.c, and stdlib.h so that _argc and _argv are imported directly from
the DLL. They only get imported if I use them (which I don't). In
dllcrt1.c there's no call to __getmainargs() and in crt1.c there is.  This
still allows _argc/v to work properly in the EXE and the DLL. This also
gets rid of the include"init.c" thing because I put init.c inside crt1.c.

Did you add malloc/free calls to the runtime since the last update?

> MSVC++ does the same, and any DLL created with VC++ will also depend on
> MSVCRT.DLL. It should be easy to convince yourself of that.

I don't have Visual C++, so I can't verify. I'm going to look into the
issue further on a machine that does have it when I get a chance.

> Until someone is willing to write a small memory manager just for the 
> runtime and hence make it independent of either MSVCRT.DLL or CRTDLL.DLL,
> I'm afraid the situation is unlikely to change.

Maybe you could just rip one out of a 'Data Structures and Algorithms'
book.

> As for mixing runtimes, just create a DLL that depends on MSVCRT.DLL, which
> is the case for just about all native DLLs. Use the msvcrt add-on package
> instead of the default CRTDLL one.

Does this mean that it's ok for the DLL to use MSVCRT.DLL and the EXE to
use a static runtime or a different DLL? Watcom 10.6 will be linking
against my DLL; I think that only had a static C runtime.

Daniel


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