Re: Q: shared libraries

>From: guest@rmy.emory.edu >Subject: Re: Q: shared libraries >Date: 16 Dec 1996 17:43:25 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.31723> > ><Nils.Myklebust@idg.no> (Nils Myklebust) wrote: >: As shared libraries still isn't available for 4GL programs compiled on > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >: SCO Unix the issue haven't materialised yet for us. Remember "last > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >: decade" :-) > > I agree. However, in English, you need to use the words like "wasn't ..." > and "hadn't ..." when telling a story of "last decade" :). > > SCO supports shared library in this decade. Include SCO 3.2(OpenDesktop, > COFF), SCO 5.x(OpenServer, COFF and ELF), SCO Unix(formal UnixWare, I > believe, ELF). > > -g At the last time I looked (two or three years ago, I think, and well within the current decade), SCO Unix did not have the plug-n-play shared libraries available with SVR4 systems. Yes, it had shared libraries, but no, Informix's code could not be built into SCO shared libraries. It required major revamping of the Informix source code to allow it to work with the restrictions of the SCO shared libraries. I'm not saying that the reworking would not have been a good idea, but the resources were not available to do it. The situation may have changed -- if someone knows about it, I'm interested to know about it. But SCO shared libraries were a pain in the posterior, which is why I4GL does not yet supply them. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> PS: Is your login name really guest? And are you really based in the rmy.emory.edu domain? If not, kindly fix your mailer or news system to inform us who you really are. It isn't as though you are talking rubbish and need to be ashamed of yourself, unlike some people who scam this newsgroup with completely off-topic articles.