ELFIO 1.0.0

Serge Lamikhov-Center to_serge@hotmail.com
Mon Sep 9 11:50:00 GMT 2002


Thank you for your warm words!

I accept your proposals and will update the packages at the nearest
time.

The library has been never tested as a share object/dynamic library.
It may be implemented this way in the future releases.

Thank you,
Serge



>From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
>To: to_serge@hotmail.com, cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: ELFIO 1.0.0
>Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:56:42 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I took a look at this. It was fun to create an ELF "Hello, World!"
>binary from Cygwin. The src package compiles fine, too. I do have two
>suggestions:
>
>1. Include the tutorial.cpp file in the binary package (since you
>include the tutorial.pdf file anyway) so as to not make people using the
>tutorial type it in. This is totally unrelated to Cygwin, but you
>(Serge) might also put it on elfio.sf.net
>
>2. Put a note that more examples are available in the src
>package (for novices). Maybe in /usr/doc/Cygwin/ELFIO-1.0.0.README
>
>But, these are definitely not show-stoppers.
>
>Also, doesn't the /lib/libELFIO.a need to be /usr/bin/libELFIO.dll to
>work on Win9x/ME? I think Nicholas had checked this out earlier, I
>don't have an older Windows installed.
>I'm also not a library expert, so I may be just plain wrong.
>
>In the setup.hint, maybe include the category "Libs"?
>
>Nice library, it's got my vote.
>
> > Thank you for your comments.
> > I have uploaded the new version of the package to the same place:
> >
> > http://elfio.sourceforge.net/ELFIO-1.0.0-1.tar.bz2
> > http://elfio.sourceforge.net/ELFIO-1.0.0-1-src.tar.bz2
> >
> > Fixed setup.hint file:
> >
> > # ELFIO library
> > category: Devel
> > requires: cygwin
> > sdesc: "ELF file reader and producer implemented as a C++ library"
> > ldesc: "ELFIO is a C++ library for reading and generating files in the
> > ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) binary format. This library is
> > unique and not based on any other product. It is also platform
> > independent. The library uses standard ANSI C++ constructions and runs
> > on a wide variety of architectures."
> >
> > Serge
>
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