Re: [MacPerl-Modules] Building module : tadam !

[Matthew Langford <langfml@eng.auburn.edu>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:31:09 +0100, Fran=E7ois LETELLIER wrote:
>=20
> >So, one needs the MSL RuntimePPC.DLL library to have modules built with =
CW
> >work.
> >My fault : I thought MS was for MicroSoft (it is for MetroWerks :-))) )
> >What hate makes you do ;-) !
>=20
> Hmm... both the "MS" prefix, and the ".DLL" extension point towards
> MicroSoft, anyway. Who else would try to use a Windows approach on a
> Mac?

Not at all. =20

MSL =3D Metrowerks Standard Libraries.  No Microsoft involved.

DLL is simply a Dynamically Linked/Loaded Library, a shared library.  Not
Microsoft specific.  It was called "DLL" instead of "shlb" or "shlib" or
".so" or ".sa" probably because such a name works on both Macs and
Windows.  The DLL idea didn't originate, nor was it taken from, Microsoft. =
=20
Nor do DLLs necessarily mean large portions of Windows are being dragged
onto the Mac.  This particular code library has much more in common with
Unix than Windows, per se, though since it is a standard (C/C++) library,
Microsoft's Visual C/C++ will have a similar library.


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MattLangford=20


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