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From: Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>
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On 11-06-08 09:28 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> On 6/8/2011 4:38 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>> What these guys did was pull in all of the
>> source for these libraries, and bundled them in with their own code. So
>> the printer driver build was intimately intermingled with compiling and
>> linking the code for those 4 libraries.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but that's just not the way it's supposed to work.
> 
> I don't know Windows development as well as I do Linux, but in Linux at
> least, it is "very hard" to link userspace libraries into kernel
> modules, so I suspect that Windows drivers have the same issue: you need
> to have those libraries statically linked in.
> 
I appreciate the point you make. In this case the thing is based on the
MS universal printer driver (Unidrv), and the UI and rendering plugins
for that, plus the port monitor that the project also supplies, are all
user-mode DLLs. Furthermore, the function of _this_ port monitor is
ultimately to write image files, not to communicate with kernel-mode
port drivers even.

AHS