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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: The best possible way to call a function in a shared library
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:08:13 +0200
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On 11/10/2017 02:38, John Smith wrote:

> I'm assuming that it has something to do with gnatls (sorry, I'm not
> sure how this works on Windows.) This did work shortly after I got the
> static libraries to work (they still do, the shared libraries do not
> work though) and I'm trying to figure out what I screwed up.

Static libraries are linked statically. DLLs are linked at run-time by 
the system loader. There are rules where the loader looks for the DLLs.

Under Windows they are:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682586(v=vs.85).aspx

P.S. The simplest way is to put the executable in the same directory 
with the DLL.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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