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Announce: FlexDLL, flexible DLLs under Windows
- From: Alain Frisch <alain at frisch dot fr>
- To: MinGW-users at lists dot sourceforge dot net, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:58:15 +0100
- Subject: Announce: FlexDLL, flexible DLLs under Windows
Dear Cygwin and MinGW mailing lists,
I'd like to announce the availability of FlexDLL, a new tool that should
greatly help porting some Unix applications under Windows. FlexDLL
implements the classical POSIX dlopen API. In short, it lets you create
DLLs with unresolved symbols. When a DLL is loaded, these symbols are
matched against those found in the main program and in previously loaded
DLLs. This should make the development of modular applications (plugins)
much easier under Windows. Forget all the trouble about
dllimport/dllexport directives, .def files and import libraries!
FlexDLL also exposes a common command-line interface to the Cygwin and
Microsoft linkers, which should simplify the life of developers that
targets several tool chains.
Homepage: http://alain.frisch.fr/flexdll.html
FlexDLL is open-source (MIT-like license) and it supports three
toolchains: Cygwin, MinGW, and native MSVC (x86 and x86_64). It acts as
a wrapper around the linker (at compile-time) and as a wrapper around
LoadLibrary (at runtime).
I hope this announce is not too much off-topic for these mailing lists.
Feedback and comments are very welcome!
Alain Frisch
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