Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:28:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <3KTHp.3576$PA5.1424@newsfe01.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Q8HyEFb0j2lB0WC1MU3ArQ"; logging-data="11937"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/N8to+UWDafXitfSVtdpvyavRU/nUYDl0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <3KTHp.3576$PA5.1424@newsfe01.iad> Cancel-Lock: sha1:RefB6X/HjS2pDPre+0IWh1g/+qI= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5143 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. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth