extern variable question

[Robert Reif]

Francois Gouget wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Robert Reif wrote:
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>>>>extern variable:
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>>>>extern const DIDATAFORMAT c_dfDIJoystick;
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>>>It looks like it was added about ten days ago:
>>>http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/08/0551.html
>>>What date is your wine source tree?
>>>- Dan
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>>I added it.  I can access it fine from within the dinput dll but I can't
>>access if from a winelib program.  The dll doesn't export it.  The lib
>>on windows does.
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>Winelib does not support importing variables from other dlls.
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>My primitive understanding of it is that it's because for importing
>functions we just add a small indirection by generating a small stub
>that will jump to the right location, while you cannot use that trick
>for variables as there is no possible indirection for them.
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I need to generate a dinput.a to access the variables just like 
dinput.lib on
windows.  The problem is how do you generate a library and dll from the
same source code in the same directory?  The Makefiles only have a
single target (.a or .so).