What is a DLL anyway?

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 3:50 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

I don't really know what a DLL is... but from what I've seen, they appear to be
compiled "procedures" or something, that can be called from different apps?

PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 4:28 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Rings.

Yeep !

Getting better with a little help from my friends....thx Siggi

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 6:59 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Danilo.

DLL -> Dynamic Link Library

Its a Library with Procedures that
is linked to the program at runtime.
(Windows uses hundreds of DLLs)

cya,
...Danilo

(registered PureBasic user)

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 7:25 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Bodind.

Hello, Fred...
If i understand well the Library SDK, ans as the generation of a DLL with PureBasic also generate a .lib, can we also make a Pure Library with the .lib generated ? ?
If not, would it be very difficult for you to add a create PureLibrary as a new option beside the compile to SharedDLL ? ?

Thanks.

Dominique

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 8:44 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

Hello, Fred...
If i understand well the Library SDK, ans as the generation of a DLL with PureBasic also generate a .lib, can we also make a Pure Library with the .lib generated ? ?
If not, would it be very difficult for you to add a create PureLibrary as a new option beside the compile to SharedDLL ? ?

Thanks.

Dominique

The .lib is to link with C/C++ langages which need this file. It's not a lib containing any code. It would be much more difficult to create a library for PureBasic, as it would use other libraries. Not impossible tough.

Fred - AlphaSND

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 8:57 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by El_Choni.

So, Fred, how can LibraryMaker generate libraries with .lib files, if they don't contain any code? I've been able to generate one from a .lib source, but it doesn't work... BTW, functions in .lib files come in the form: _function@4. Does the library maker search for the "PB_" suffix in this case or "_PB_"?

Time for doc update?

Regards,

El_Choni

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 11:32 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

Ok. Some .lib can contain code (static lib). Other like these generated with the .dll don't contains code. The only information they contains is the dll functions names and their position inside the dll. It add @4 at the end because it's supposed to be used with LccWin32 and it requers this...

About the doc update, yes, definitely

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Fred - AlphaSND