Dll using symbols of the executable

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From: Philip Lawatsch (philip_at_waug.at)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:55:03 +0200

Hi,

I'm trying to port a Linux application to Windows but I'm running into
some problems regarding the use of dlls.

This project has a lot of shared libs on linux (these are plugins) and
the executable is linked in a special way so it exports its own symbols.
Now the shared libs can use symbols from the executable and vice versa.

Is this also possible on Windows?
I only found references for using symbols from dlls inside applications
but not the other way around.

The project is written in c++ if that matters.

kind regards Philip

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