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Re: Indepth Analyses Of Euphoria Translator

• Posted by Mike The Spike <mtsreborn at yahoo.com> Mar 30, 2001
• 509 views

Hmm, allright then, so you are *for* the idea of DLL
compilation...
*sigh*
I allmost thought panic was about to break out about
this whole DLL compilation thing possibly deleting
your hard drive, and Rob might change his mind...

I can see many benefits to DLL compilation,
for one, I'd be able to provide my Euphoria libraries,
wich use Eu's excellent features, to C++ and VB
programmers.
I could create a DLL called win32lib.dll, and I'm
betting people will use that instead of MFC.

And for example, I can now create MODs and plug-ins
for various programs out there.
A WinAmp plug-in? A 3DSMAX plug-in? etc...

What would be nice would be to have the source to the
DLLs you download, though.
Not because of the whole virus thing, but because it
would be educational to see how it all works.
I wouldn't want to see all future Euphoria libraries
to be precompiled DLLs without source, know what I
mean?

Also, your Eu apps can now be extended by plugin DLLs
written by other Eu coders...
Maybe something cool for David's llama library?
Create a new control by coding a DLL?

Mike The Spike

--- CK Lester <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Mike,
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> > Yeah, but so what?
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> I've NEVER had a virus infection on any machine for
> which I was responsible.
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> > You are saying that not having the source to a
> > Euphoria library, can mean that it could be a
> virus
> > and you wouldn't know it, therefore, let us forget
> > about DLL compilation and stay in thiss little
> > 200-people community with no one knowing we exist,
> am
> > I correct?
> 
> No no no. I'm simply saying, should I take the same
> precautions with DLLs
> that I do with EXEs... in regards to their potential
> use for "bad things."
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> > Think of customers, people that want to buy
> plugins
> > for apps or games, should they first go to
> > www.rapideuphoria.com, download Euphoria To C,
> visit
> > the archive, download the source to your library,
> > register Euphoria To C, download a C compiler,
> > translate your library to C, link it into a DLL,
> and
> > then use it, just because it *might* contain a
> virus
> > otherwise?
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> In this case, the DLL would be well-tested and
> general users could be
> reasonably confident that the DLL would perform as
> specified.
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> > Just get a Virus Scanner and scan your HD, most
> email
> > clients do that for you automatically anyways, and
> > stop worrying!
> 
> If I wrote a EUPHORIA program called
> "FunnyVideo.exe," that actually deleted
> all contents off your hard drive, no virus checker
> is going to be able to
> determine what my program does... In this case, it's
> not a virus, but the
> enemy in a trojan horse.
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