Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> How does this stuff work with Windoze? (Or Linux, for that matter...)

Dynamic link libraries (DLLs) two ways to get to them, either through 
the linker, or through dynamic loading through calls to LoadLibrary and 
GetProcAddress. The easiest way is using the linker, of course, provided 
you have the header & library files (which you should for any windows 
compiler available). The DLL loader does all of the procedure address 
fix-ups, if a DLL is loaded into its preferred address space (i.e. no 
other DLL is occupying the address space it requests), then loading is 
much quicker since all of the pointers in the function table are 
correct. Alternatively, some functions, such as those in the DirectX and 
Shell libraries use COM, in which instances of classes are loaded with 
vtables pointed to the correct functions. DirectX (and Shell, I think) 
export non-COM functions for creation of the COM class instances.

* This is simplified and largely from memory, so take it for what its 
worth (not much). This is also the case for Win32, Win16 may be 
different, Win64 should be similar, though.

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