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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can't compile Ethereal from current CVS on Windows.

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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:06:02 +0200
"Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 1:41 PM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> 
> > Yes, if (t)ethereal.exe misses an export the plugin need, LoadLibrary
> > on the plugin.dll would simply fail w/o saying what symbols was missing
> 
> And if it doesn't miss any exports, presumably "LoadLibrary()" will 
> succeed and bind references to the exported function from the module to 
> the function in the main program, right?

Yes. AFAIK data in '.idata' sections is automagically bound to
their referenced DLL/EXE by the Windows loader.

--gv