On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Rick McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Mark Miesfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Rick McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Windows also has a function, SetDllDirectory() which you can use to >> add paths to the default DLL search path. Once you augment the path, >> it stays that way for the life of the process. On Windows, we could >> augment the DLL search path with the REXX_PATH directories on startup >> and REXX_PATH would automatically be used for the library search. > > I saw that, but I'm not sure that's the behavior we want. To start > with, it's not dynamic (i.e., you can't change it from inside a > running ooRexx program). It's also not stable. Some other library we > load might augment (or even worse, reset) the search path, which would > mess things up. I just saw that is requires XP or later, which is another point against it. Still, searching REXX_PATH and using the complete path name if the library is found would work the same on Windows as on *nix. -- Mark Miesfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
