Re: Proposed loadlibrary.c patch for MinGW/WIN32

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > I propose that the attached patch be applied to keep Windows from 
> > displaying silly GUI dialog boxes while loading modules under Windows.
> >
> > Is the patch ok to apply?
>
>
> It seems that this patch is not sufficient.  Libltdl does some strange 
> things.  I get a dialog box "The application or DLL 
> c:\blah\ltdl\.libs\libltdl.a is not a valid Windows image. Please check 
> this against your installation diskette."
>
> Why does libltdl attempt to dynamically load .a files?

As you rightly diagnose in another thread, it simply tries each of the
files in library_names...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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