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I am looking into designing some programs and am wondering if windows
dlls are compatible with linux.

Quote:>I am looking into designing some programs and am wondering if windows
>dlls are compatible with linux.

In a word, no.

Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

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Quote:>I am looking into designing some programs and am wondering if windows
>dlls are compatible with linux.

They are not.

Use shared libraries (*.so) to achieve the same thing in the Linux
world.

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Quote:>>I am looking into designing some programs and am wondering if windows
>>dlls are compatible with linux.

> They are not.

Well, technically speaking - the execution code in the DLLs are
compatible to the extent that system calls are available to the DLLs.
For example, mplayer uses Windows Media Player DLLs in order to play
Windows-specific media formats.  Simple exported functions can be
utilized if you understand the API to the DLL.

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