OpenEuphoria

RE: A Euphoria DLL?

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at localnet.com> Mar 01, 2002
• 520 views

Matthew Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bernie Ryan [mailto:xotron at localnet.com]
> 
> > Jonas:
> >   There is no way to create a dll without a compiler.
> >   The reason is that it has to be able to interface
> >   with the operating system and must be structured in a
> >   certain way.
> 
> The same could be said for a normal executable, I think.  Why couldn't 
> you
> have a 'binddll' the same as the regular bind?  It would be more
> complicated, but not not impossible.  Here's what it might look like (of
> ocurse, I'm speculating on how a bound program works, but...):
> 
> All of the Eu code could be 'included' in the startup case for LibMain.
> Then you'd need to expose the global routines.  This could be done by 
> having
> the bind utility create a stub that effectively links to the 
> routine_id's of
> the global routines.  The hard part IMHO is figuring out the structure 
> of
> the stub.
> 

Matt:
   A bound program is just the executable interpeter with
   a executable program code bound on to the backend of it.
   This would be very different than creating a DLL.

Bernie