Re: [Rlib-devel] RLIB-1.3.2 questions, problems and an ODBC fix

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:14 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Bob Doan =C3=ADrta:
> > Hym... Back when I was trying the port RLIB to windows I recall libto=
ol
> > not wanting to make a DLL.
> >=20
> > Dunno if you are having these problems.
> >=20
> > Did you try to manually create the dll w/ gcc?
> >=20
> > I also tried to manually make a dll and I don't think I could ever ge=
t
> > it to work.  I didn't have symbol problems, but I think it kept makin=
g a
> > static library.  I assume because of your work in windows you have mo=
re
> > experience w/ this
>=20
> I am looking at how Xine does all this.  Xine has a working Win32 port
> and it uses dlopen very heavily, too, to open all of its plugins.


RLIB uses g_module stuff so it should not be doing any
dlopen's.....?????


>=20
> > FYI, I'm working on UTF8 for you.  But I have a question.  Do you kno=
w
> > of any way to put UTF8 in PDF documents?  I kinda think its not going=
 to
> > work.  We can only go as far as Adobe's fonts support things.  RPDF
> > could be made utf8 friendly but it might be pointless unless it can b=
e
> > done inside a PDF document.
>=20
> I don't know the PDF internals enough to answer that.
> I think for my purpose it would be enough to accept the strings
> in UTF-8 and output them in ISO-8859-2. That would require only iconv.
>=20
> Best regards,
> Zolt=C3=A1n B=C3=B6sz=C3=B6rm=C3=A9nyi