[Mingw-users] Re: Generic DLL questions

[Stefan B. <sb...@sb...>]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> Stefan Bellon <sb...@sb...> writes:

> > using SWIG (http://www.swig.org/). SWIG's idea is, that the Python
> > interpreter loads (via an import command) a Python file which
> > itself loads a DLL. This DLL provides the commands of the main exe
> > that can be called via the Python scripting. On the Ada side, those
> > functions that can be called from the script, are exported with
> > pragma Export to C.

> This is indeed an interesting thread. To fully understand your
> problems: Why is it that your main.exe cannot be a dll?

Because main.exe uses GtkAda and it's currently not possible to make a
DLL that uses GtkAda on Windows.

-- 
Stefan Bellon