Hi Neil.

22-Aug-03 10:20:00, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts


 NH>> Does Linux use DLLs?

 JB>> dynamic linking, yes, *.DLL no.

 NH> What's different about a library in *NIX that makes it dynamically
 NH> loadable? What sets a dynamically loadable library apart from any
 NH> other in *NIX?

the extension, and, I assume the format of the data inside.
I haven't looked into the details.

 NH> How can a programmer know in advance that this
 NH> option is available?

While coding he can't.
The person who builds the binary has the ultimate say.
I don't see how knowing either way would be important to the
programmer.

AFAICT all that's cained by dynamic linking is smaller binaries and some
small ram savings where different apps that use the same library functions
are "running" concurrently,

it may be possible to arrange a makefile to define a macro according to the
availablilty of dynamic linking

 -=> Bye <=-

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