Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Wasn't there a guy on the cygwin ML a couple of weeks ago who claimed > to have solved the problem with unresolved symbols? There was some > shoulder patting on the list, but nothing came out of it so far, right?
That would be FlexDLL: <http://alain.frisch.fr/flexdll.html> which is essentially a cute trick to implement a dlopen/dlsym interface that allows for symbols to remain unresolved at link-time and instead be dynamically resolved by a ld.so-like dynamic linker at runtime. It's a neat concept, and as far as I can see it works fine. But the fact that it is built around explicit dynamic runtime linking (i.e. dlopen/dlsym) means that it doesn't help in the more general case where you want the operating system loader to have ELF-like semantics too, not just for programs that have plugins. Brian