[ale] UNIX equivalent of Windows DLL

[Prasanna Subash]

Hi Kalin,

>2. Can somebody point out a qood programming environment (IDE) - something
>like Microsoft Visual Studio (something simpler can do certainly, but it
>must have syntax hilighting and debugging capabilities)? It may be Linux
>speciffic, for X Windows or run in a terminal (console) mode.

	wpe, xwpe, codewarrior

>1. Is there equivalent of Windows DLL's (dynamic loadable libraries) in
>UNIX? If so, can somebody tell me the API to search for?
>I need something like
>lib = load_a_library("mylib");
>func = get_func("my_func");
>func("param1", param2, ...);

Look at header dlfcn.h

loadlibrary() -- > dlopen()
getprocaddress() -- > dlsym()
closelibrary ---> dlclose()

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/dlopen.html


>4. Is there vector font support (like TrueType) in X Windows? If so, where
>can I such font server?
>
>5. Are there libraries for making "smooth" edges (antialiasing) of screen
>fonts?
		Yes, look at the font server xfsft. You can use all your
windows Truetype fonts.

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/

-----Original Message-----
 From: Kalin Nakov [mailto:knakov at nemetschek.bg]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:25 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] UNIX equivalent of Windows DLL




Hi. I'm new to UNIX programming, so the following questions may seem
stupid, but I would be happy if someone answers them.

1. Is there equivalent of Windows DLL's (dynamic loadable libraries) in
UNIX? If so, can somebody tell me the API to search for?
I need something like
lib = load_a_library("mylib");
func = get_func("my_func");
func("param1", param2, ...);

2. Can somebody point out a qood programming environment (IDE) - something
like Microsoft Visual Studio (something simpler can do certainly, but it
must have syntax hilighting and debugging capabilities)? It may be Linux
speciffic, for X Windows or run in a terminal (console) mode.

3. I have RedHat 6.0 (gtk+-1.2.1 and glib-1.2.1) and I downloaded
gtk+-1.2.6 and glib-1.2.6. I compiled and installed glib-1.2.6, but when
running ./configure for gtk+-1.2.6 I got the error that I have an old
version of glib (1.2.1). Can somebody help?