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- From: bosullvn@unix1.tcd.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Dynamic linking
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:33:40 GMT
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- kly@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Gregory Kozlovsky) writes:
-
- >I have written an interpreter and I would like to have the capability
- >to link and call C functions in run-time. These C functions would be
- >created in a separate source file which then will be compiled. The tricky
- >part is to link .o file with the interpreter and to call the function.
-
- >I remember this question being discussed two years ago and somebody
- >named Wilson Ho offered a package called DLD for dynamic linking.
- >Are you still on the net Wilson?
-
- He's now working for MIPS/SGI; I don't know if he has net access.
- In any case, the answer you need is yes. Last time I looked, DLD
- was available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38).
- However, it only runs under BSD flavours of UNIX at the moment, as
- I recall; I don't think it is likely to support ELF or other library
- formats in the foreseeable future (according to Wilson).
-
- -- Bryan
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