Guest kirandip_sidhu Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 Does anyone know how to create dll files in linux, through free software or command lines? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 The answer depends on what you *really* want. The short answer would be "there's no way" because .DLL files are a Windows-only thing. The equivalent of XXX.DLL in Windows, is libXXX.so (so=Shared Object) in Unix (hence in Linux). So a longer answer is: - If what you really want is to create Unix(/Linux) shared objects, that is libraries with .so extension, then use whatever compiled language suits you best (C++, Ada...). - If you really want to create .DLL files, then maybe not all is lost. You may try and find if what you want is possible with Wine and/or Mono. Wine is a win32 compatibility layer for Linux, so it may let you create your .DLL files without Windows, though you may still need win32 apps. Mono is a .NET runtime and compiler for Linux, so maybe you'll be able to create .NET-specific .DLL files (if that exists). Note that both are in deep development, and neither is 100% stable and compatible, though both are already at an advanced and usable stage. Then if what you want only is not to boot windows, but you accept using Windows, you can try running a whole Windows environment in a virtual machine (Bochs, Plex86, VMware, Win4Lin...). I hope this helps. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kirandip_sidhu Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Thanks that was helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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