extern variable question

[Francois Gouget]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Robert Reif wrote:
[...]
> >> extern variable:
> >>
> >> extern const DIDATAFORMAT c_dfDIJoystick;
[...]
> > It looks like it was added about ten days ago:
> > http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/08/0551.html
> > What date is your wine source tree?
> > - Dan
> >
> I added it.  I can access it fine from within the dinput dll but I can't
> access if from a winelib program.  The dll doesn't export it.  The lib
> on windows does.

Winelib does not support importing variables from other dlls.

My primitive understanding of it is that it's because for importing
functions we just add a small indirection by generating a small stub
that will jump to the right location, while you cannot use that trick
for variables as there is no possible indirection for them.


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