Re: GNAT, Windows, DLLs

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Alfred Hilscher <Spam@alfred-hilscher.de> writes:

> I have the follwing problem: In gnat_ug it is said, that the code has to
> call _ada_initialize first and _ada_finalize at last. But - my DLL shall
> replace an existing third party DLL. So the applications using this DLL
> are not Ada-aware, and there is no way to tell them "hey the DLL is
> replaced, you have to call now an initialize-procedure first, and you
> must call this finalize-procedure at the end". So is there a way to make
> this initializing/finalizing transparent?

I don't know.  Surely there's some way to attach initialization code to
a DLL?

>... What can happen, if one/both
> of them are _not_ called?

All of your library-level initialization and finalization code will be
skipped.

- Bob