[gmpi] Re: ABI's / Nutshell

  • From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:51:06 -0500

>Yep.  we haven't speced the precise functions yet, or what services are 
>needed.  That will happen when we cover those topics.  Focus at present 
>is getting a minimal plugin to load on Windows & linux.

lets no leave OSX behind. we have the difficult choice there of what
level to target... Mach? BSD? Darwin? Cocoa? or something else ... ?

> >  If not, since we aren't
> > using a dynamic linker to load plugs, how exactly are those symbols
> > (system lib calls etc.) resolved by the time the plug needs to call them?
>
>GMPI plugins are dlls, so system calls get resolved automatically by the 
>OS loader, no extra work for GMPI.

plugins shouldn't make any system calls, ideally. we know they will,
but i just want to mention the ideal :)

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