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Re: Modules under Cygwin

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Modules under Cygwin
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:26:36 +0100 (BST)
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In-reply-to: <000001bfaa09$6938f030$21c9ca95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Andrej Borsenkow at "Apr 19, 2000 06:13:18 pm"
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>The import library is a regular UNIX-like .a library, but it only
>contains the tiny bit of information needed to tell the OS how your
>program interacts with ("imports") the dll. This information is linked
>into your .exe. This is also generated by dlltool.

This is a "stub library" in the terminology I've seen under Unix.
This is needed when linking (at compile time) against a shared library
(as we do with libzsh), but is *not* relevant to the modules themselves.
There we need dynamic symbol lookup (dlsym()).

-zefram

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