Re: Dll and garbage collection

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Martin Spernau wrote:
> > Thanks for the answer. If I understood correctly it's not possible to 
> > have plain Lua executable using libraries from dll's? Instead I have 
> > to use same Lua from dll for application and library?
>
> On win32 at least, that's the situation. A win32 exe apparently can't 
> export functions like a dll can... (I've seen some pointers that the can 
> actually be made to do just that, but everybody I asked suggested to 
> stay away from that...)

A way to do that is to gather all useful exe function pointers in a function that 
pass these pointers to another function in the DLL that will store them for further 
use inside the DLL.

Note very elegant, prone to problems, but I saw it used in a real e-mail application.

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Philippe Lhoste (Paris -- France)
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