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Re: [ITP] perl-Tk
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:50:53AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>
> > void *dlh = dlopen("mydllalternate.dll", RTLD_NOW);
>
> That's because dlopen() is a Cygwin function that understands things
> like LD_LIBRARY_PATH and posix paths. But if you use it you are not
> using "the windows runtime loader", at least not directly. If you try
> your sample above using LoadLibrary it will fail.
Anyway, I'm satisfied that alternatives could be used with perl
extension dlls.