dynamic-linking

is it possible to compile SDL library program into exec and run it without having "sdl.dll"? for example let say i wrote sdl program and it works and everything but the thing is to run the program on windows, i need to have "sdl.dll" within the same folder or system folder. is it possible to compile it so that i can just take the exec with me without needing to have "sdl.dll" along with it? i am using visual studio 2010 express. Typically the procedure for this kind of stuff is: Download the source code for the library. In SDL's case: http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php . Build the library

I want to install lxml module in my unix system, and it doesn't work. the problem is failed to reference symbol: Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Sep 12 2010, 18:46:30) [C] on sunos5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from lxml import etree Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: ld.so.1: isapython2.6: fatal: relocation error: file lxml/etree.so: symbol __xmlStructuredErrorContext: referenced symbol not found however, the output of ldd command is: $ ldd lxml/etree.so libxslt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 libexslt.so.0

I'm giving a try at OpenCL, and in order to put this in production I'd like to be able to bind dynamically to OpenCL.DLL (when under Windows), in order to handle 'gracefully' the case where no OpenCL is installed on the host computer. Is there any available library (or code snippet) that takes care of this dynamic binding in C or C++, much like GLEW does for OpenGL ? I'd like to avoid the hassle to do it myself. Thanks, Here you go: http://clcc.sourceforge.net/clew_8h.html Since you're dealing with Win32, the easiest solution is delay loading. If you delay-load OpenCL, and the compiler-added

BACKGROUND: If an executable file has a external data reference, which is defined in a shared object, the compiler will use copy relocation and place a copy in its .bss section. Copy relocation is detailed in this site: http://www.shrubbery.net/solaris9ab/SUNWdev/LLM/p22.html#CHAPTER4-84604 However, my question is: Is it possible to implement it through GOT, just like the external data reference in shared object? The executable can indirectly accesses this external code through its GOT entry, and this GOT entry can be stuffed with the real address of this symbol in run-time. I don't know why

Given ls -lrt /usr/lib/libvpx* results lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 9 2012 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.0 ->libvpx.so.1.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 9 2012 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1 -> libvpx.so.1.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 646120 Feb 9 2012 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.0.0 ls -lrt /usr/lib/libschroedinger* results lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 8 2012 /usr/lib/libschroedinger-1.0.so.0 ->libschroedinger-1.0.so.0.11.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 774044 Feb 8 2012 /usr/lib/libschroedinger-1.0.so.0.11.0 ls -lrt /usr/lib/libgsm* results lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 5 2009 /usr/lib/libgsm.so.1 -> libgsm.so.1.0.12 -rw

First of all, is virtual memory a hardware feature of the system, or is it implemented solely by OS? During link-time relocation, the linker assigns run-time addresses to each section and each symbol, in the generated executable Do those run-time addresses correspond to virtual addresses? What if the system for which the executable is generated, does not use virtual memory? Next, if virtual memory is not used, then the application's address space is limited to the physical address space allocated for it by OS after load-time relocation Does page fault occur if no virtual memory is used? I