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Ladsoft / CC386 back online (Announce)

posted by jaybur  , UK, 29.02.2008, 22:44

> Hehe, and then you will run into troubles with incopatabilities between
> various progs compiled for different alegro versions like is common under
> windows and you then will need to provide your alegro.dll working with
> your prog to be sure it will works for others...

And then the program can't use smart-linking to weed out all the unused Allegro functions, and the application/run-time is even bigger than it would have been if allegro had been statically linked in the first place. And you still have to deal with all the version issues.

Application-side DLL's are generally a bad thing IMO.

Complete thread:

• Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Steve, 25.02.2008, 20:01 (Announce)
  • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 27.02.2008, 08:29
    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 27.02.2008, 09:48
      • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 27.02.2008, 18:30
      • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - DOS386, 01.03.2008, 02:37
    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 27.02.2008, 19:14
      • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 29.02.2008, 09:02
        • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 29.02.2008, 10:02
          • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Laaca, 29.02.2008, 16:46
            • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - flox, 29.02.2008, 17:21
              • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 29.02.2008, 20:55
                • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - RayeR, 29.02.2008, 21:36
                • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 01.03.2008, 00:42
                  • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 01.03.2008, 05:24
                    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 02.03.2008, 00:34
                      • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 02.03.2008, 08:41
                • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 01.03.2008, 20:09
                  • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 02.03.2008, 08:34
                    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 02.03.2008, 14:48
                      • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 02.03.2008, 16:10
                        • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 02.03.2008, 18:03
                          • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 03.03.2008, 11:44
                            • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 03.03.2008, 13:25
                            • annoying? moi? - Rugxulo, 04.03.2008, 18:10
                        • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Steve, 03.03.2008, 02:55
                          • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Japheth, 03.03.2008, 11:31
                    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - flox, 03.03.2008, 17:19
            • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 29.02.2008, 17:25
              • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - flox, 29.02.2008, 18:13
              • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Khusraw, 29.02.2008, 18:46
                • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - RayeR, 29.02.2008, 21:28
                  • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Khusraw, 29.02.2008, 22:07
                    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - RayeR, 29.02.2008, 23:48
                    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 01.03.2008, 00:44
                  • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - jaybur, 29.02.2008, 22:44
                    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Khusraw, 01.03.2008, 13:51
                • D | DLL hell | MPLAYER - DOS386, 01.03.2008, 02:54
                  • D | DLL hell | MPLAYER - Khusraw, 01.03.2008, 14:02
          • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 01.03.2008, 00:30
            • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 01.03.2008, 20:25
              • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 02.03.2008, 00:32
                • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - rr, 02.03.2008, 14:15
        • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - Rugxulo, 01.03.2008, 00:26
          • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - DOS386, 01.03.2008, 02:45
          • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - Japheth, 01.03.2008, 07:01
            • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - RayeR, 01.03.2008, 14:46
              • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - Japheth, 02.03.2008, 09:31
                • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - RayeR, 02.03.2008, 13:43
                  • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - Japheth, 02.03.2008, 15:59
                    • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - RayeR, 03.03.2008, 19:01
                      • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - Japheth, 04.03.2008, 09:00
                        • DJGPP and OpenWatcom - Rugxulo, 04.03.2008, 15:06
    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 04.03.2008, 15:15
      • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Matjaz, 04.03.2008, 16:49
        • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Rugxulo, 04.03.2008, 18:05
  • Ladsoft / CC386 dead again - Steve, 01.03.2008, 06:28
    • Ladsoft / CC386 dead again - RayeR, 01.03.2008, 14:43
    • Alternate Ladsoft file locations - Steve, 03.03.2008, 04:55
      • Alternate Ladsoft file locations - rr, 03.03.2008, 09:44
      • Alternate Ladsoft file locations - Revised - Steve, 04.03.2008, 09:49
        • Alternate Ladsoft file locations - Slightly revised - Steve, 04.03.2008, 14:24
  • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - DOS386, 04.03.2008, 01:57
    • Ladsoft / CC386 back online - Steve, 04.03.2008, 05:25