Shared libraries/DLLs

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown at simplemachines.org> wrote in message 
news:fnu7l0$2p5l$1 at digitalmars.com...

> This appears to work on Linux.  I expected it might work (or there might 
> be some way to coax it to work) on Windows.  It seems logical, even not 
> having used the LoadLibrary/etc. stuff before.  The library needs to 
> access the caller's functions.
>
> It does appear I can make it at least *compile* (but not run) by adding an 
> IMPORTS directive to the .def file of the library, but this clearly is 
> intended for static linking.  I'm wanting to load the DLL as a plugin, 
> dynamically.  Its name and location might change.
>
> Am I making some hopefully obvious and stupid mistake?  Please tell me I 
> don't actually have to send pointers to all the api functions to the DLL 
> when calling it.

So, uh, what _exactly_ is the problem?  I don't think you ever said..