[Ecls-list] ecls build under cygwin and shared libraries

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 19:17, you wrote:
> I have been fiddling with ecl under cygwin and the compilation facility. 
> In order to get the compiler working, ecl needs to have the dynamic loading
> facility working (unless you do the static link and exec generation
> approach).
> However, the compile-file function is now broken and trace has not bee
> helpful in helping me understand the issue.  Here's the output.  For some
> reason, I am getting a reference to SI::OLDF which I have not been able to
> find in the .def (for the dll) or in any of the source files.


I have not looked into this yet. As you mention, the current DLL loading 
facility in ECL relies on the fact that both Linux/BSD allow unresolved 
references and require no *.def file. Your solution --building a huge DLL 
with which all other libraries are linked-- is the right approach. However 
you will have to advice the program that there is a working dlopen(). You can 
do this in src/h/machines.h, in the section between the #ifdef cygwin. This 
implies the definition of #+dlopen and many other things and should probably 
solve the undefined references you find. Please tell us all whether you 
succeed at this, so that I introduce these changes in the CVS tree.

Juanjo
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