Re: [Mingw-users] overriding functions in DLLs

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Julian Bradfield wrote:
> 
> On Unix, a symbol exported in a program overrides the same symbol
> occurring in a shared library, and even the other routines in the
> shared library use the symbol in the program (naturally...). I would
> like to have the same happen in Windows, but it doesn't seem to;
> rather the version in the DLL is used.
> Is there a way to achieve this?
> 

No, not currently.  Further followup should be done with GCC and
binutils lists.

> (Specifically, I have a program that I link against the gtk+ DLLs, and
> I want to override the function gtk_accelerator_valid() in the DLLs by
> my own function which is less arrogant about what I'm allowed to use
> as an accelerator!)
> 

The only alternative is to build the dll with your version.

> Incidentally, I would like to search the archives of this list, as
> instructed, but there doesn't seem to be a facility to do so. Is there
> a searchable mirror somewhere I haven't noticed?
> 

Goto www.google.com
include in your search criteria `mingw site:geocrawler.net'

This will get you other lists that have discussed MinGW as well.

Earnie.

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