Re: Request for Compiler Independent Extern "C" APIs...

[Ari Heitner]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:23:18PM -0500, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
> 
> Like Brendan mentioned, they have version information inside the DLLs,
> but it seems to be used mainly as a suggestion. Sometimes, when you
> install some software, you get a dialog box saying "I'm about to install
> FOO.DLL, but you seem to have a newer version", with some information
> about both DLLs and two buttons to make your choice. That's where it
> starts to get fun. :-)
> 

back when i hacked on Windows (I was a highschooler writing computer games,
i didn't know any better), we used to call this "playing farmer-in-the-DLL".

It was great fun, if you weren't too worried about your system working
afterwards ...


ari