From: Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
  To  : andreas.beck@ggi-project.org, ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:20:20 +0000

Re: DJGPP - LibDL anywhere ?

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:

> > > > What exactly is LibDL?
> > > If I'm not mistaken, Andy is probably referring to the UNIX libdl concept;
> > > dynamically loaded libraries via dlopen() and company.
> Right.
> 
> > There are at least 3 ways to do it, but of course no one as good as you'll 
> > find in a powerfull OS like UNIX. 
> > Take a look to DLM, DLX and the classical DXE (plus some packages to enhance 
> > it). For links go to my home page, the dlinks.html contains 391 clasified 
> > links about tools and stuff for djgpp.
> 
> Good ! Thanks I will check your page out (and bookmark it of course :-).
> 
> 
> > What exactly are you trying to do Andreas?
> 
> Port LibGGI to DJGPP. So you can just take a LibGGI program, push it
> through DJGPP and run it on DOS.

Cool! If you just need to load a KGI driver in memory perhaps you don't need 
a whole dynamic loader. Allegro uses VBE/AF drivers, they are binary images 
and the loading process is easy. But our VBE/AF drivers have a relocation 
table so we can load the code at any address, what's the format of the KGI 
driver?

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