On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Andreas Jellinghaus <a...@dungeon.inka.de> wrote: > Am Samstag 06 Februar 2010 10:34:03 schrieb Alon Bar-Lev: >> The inf file management is very hard to maintain and produce something >> sane. It great for drivers but not software. >> I prefer we do all what needed in the install batch file until someone >> come forward >> and maintain msi based package. > > ok. is there any new method to create those? > I know nsis installer (creates exe files I think) > and wix (horrible complex xml stuff to create msi files - never > found out even how to get started).
I prefer tools that can be used in cross environment. nsis is a good example of such tool. >> > btw: why don't you export DllMain? I thought it needs to be exported, >> > so it will be found. DllMain is a special symbol, the loader runs >> > this function of every Dll loaded before the main program is run >> > / continues to run. Not sure if that continues to work without the >> > export. >> >> As far as I know DllMain is called by the CRT [1] so the DllMain >> itself much like >> main should not be exported. >> >> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/988ye33t%28VS.80%29.aspx > > ah, I thought if it wasn't in the export list, the linker might remove > the symbol and maybe even optimize away the whole function. so there is > some magic mechanism in the linker (at least for windows dlls) to keep > that symbol and function? No magic... there is an entry point of the module called _DllMainCRTStartup, the CRT implements this entry point and eventually calls DllMain, so no symbol can be optimized out. Alon. _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
