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And then there is Wine.

By the way - there are a couple of media players that are making use of
Windows DLL files just to be able to use Windows codecs.

But in this case, the bit problem is that the post is just a request for
using a dll file, without any motivation why. Because of knowing that a
dll file is the Windows name for the concept while actually intending to
use a *.so dynamic library? Because the dll file contains important
functions to use? Because the dll is supposed to contain important
functions, but the functions already existing for Linux, if we just knew
what the dll does?

It is always hard - often impossible - to help someone who are not ready
to write a lot of information about the what and the why.

/pwm

Hello,      I'll assume that you know that nealy all functions inside a DLL use Windows API, an that Windows API is not supported in Linux kernel.       Bear in mind that even if you have the source code, and it has known functions... ( e.g.: malloc()... ) in the compiled version, the result.dll, the malloc call is assembled  into the windows-spefic malloc implementation, that calls a function like _mzAlloc (or something like that), that actually performs all the mem allocation tasks.      Obviosly, linux kernel malloc implementation( compiled version) probably will not have the same function name and other aspects ( reside on the same address, uses the same number of args, etc, etc ).      So, assuming you considered the above and  the code that resides in the .DLL is a very simple one, you *can* parse the header, load the symbol table, resolve it, load it to a buffer, witch allows you to execute code, and "jmp" to that location.  It is... very hard work, and even if you can do it, the code in the dll, must be very simple( even function calls inside the parsed come, must be in the same calling covention to execute right... and you'll have to resolve the code address all hiover again).  I would not bother without a very good reason... mind you, even if you pull this off, it'll be a hogger of a code.... 

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:32:59 -0300From: fre...@gm...To: dev...@li...Subject: [Dev-C++] dll / linux
Hello,I need import some functions of a .dll on linux. I using kernel 2.6.24, Ubuntu 8.04 server edition.tanks
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