Re: libltdl and Windows

[Howard Chu]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Currently libltdl will attempt to load any file you request it to (and 
> some you did not) under Windows.  Libltdl is currently trying to load 
> .dll.a files when it loads a .la file.  This causes problems.
>
> While there are valid reasons for *Windows* programmers to load .exe 
> files and possibly some other types, it doesn't seem to me that libtool 
> (the *portable* library/loader tool) should encourage loading anything 
> but DLLs so attempting to load anything but a DLL should fail.  Does 
> anyone know of a reason that libtool should be willing to load anything 
> but DLLs?

Thinking out loud ... not all DLLs are saved with a ".DLL" suffix. But 
as far as libltdl goes, processing the contents of a .la file, I think 
it's perfectly reasonable to exclude anything with a ".a" suffix. When 
asked to explicitly load a non-".la" file though, it should just load 
whatever was requested.
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