Ralf Habacker wrote: > Ralf Habacker wrote: > >>I'm thinking about creating to areas, an internal and an external. >>New releases of kdelibs and perhaps kdebase for example are build together. So >>ordinal linking is not problem. -> internal area. Any other app may >>be linked by name -> external area. >> >> > That would cause the second solution I have told, normal import library and > using a special linker switch for using ordinal linking.
Yeah, I think I like this -- but it should be used carefully in foundation libraries like KDE (and Gnome), and only where you're guaranteed that the ordinal-linked apps/dlls will always be upgraded together. The potential for muck-up is high... --Chuck