From: Whitney de Vries (whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA)
Date: 07/31/93


From: whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA (Whitney de Vries)
Subject: Re: DLL's for linux
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 03:24:41 GMT


: Does Linux have any support dynamically linked modules
: ( also known as DLL's in OS/2, Windows ) ?

An appropriate followup question : What is the difference
between a shared library and a dynamic linked library ?

Dynamic-libraries support getting a pointer to a function
by name. ie. foo() is a function in a library call MyLib.

   void (f*)()

   f = GetFunc("MyLib","_foo"); /* load library and get function */
   (f*)(); /* call foo */

Can you do this with a shared library ?

Whitney