dlopen error

[John Fortin]

Mumit,
	It seems that NT SP5 had DirectX V3 support in it.  Maybe that where
ddraw.dll came from..

	Also Win2K (NT 5.0) is supposed to support DirectX 7.0  

	As for Glide, I am guessing that it uses DirectX 2.0 since it can run
on NT

John

Mumit Khan wrote:
> 
> "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com> writes:
> >
> > I noticed, glide-0-0-0.dll on your system is pulling DDRAW.DLL too?
> > I do not have DDRAW.DLL.  It is actually DirectDraw/DirectX DLL, as
> > John pointed out.  I do not have DirectX installed.  On NT 4.0 newer
> > versions of DirectDraw/DirectX are not supported.  That is why I never
> > installed DirectD/DirectX.  When you patched 3Dfx headers and created
> > the implib for Glide, could it be possible that it got linked to
> > DDRAW too?  I cannot see that though under objdump.  All the DLLs from GGI
> > get opened, except glide-0-0-0.dll.  I also compiled today
> > terminfo-0-0-0.dll of GGI.  terminfo does display using simple stdin/stdout.
> > It was a good decision, because that helped me find a new bug in libX11.dll,
> > which I did not notice until now.
> 
> The Glide SDK DLL itself depends on DDRAW.DLL, and nothing you or I do
> will change that. Sorry. Do an objdump on the Glide SDK DLL and you'll
> see.
> 
> I don't know how I have DDRAW.DLL on this NT machine that I use for
> testing our own software, and don't even remember installing DirectDraw.
> Perhaps some other software installed it.
> 
> Regards,
> Mumit