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Why not use some sort of dynamic linking system?

April 26, 2017Dynamic linking sort system

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Why not use some sort of dynamic linking system?

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The VBE/AF interface already provides this for the video drivers: see the FreeBE/AF project on http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/. For more general things like the sound, VESA, and mode-X routines, this would be very difficult to do because the drivers depend on a lot of helper functions from the core lib. The djgpp DXE format is nowhere near flexible enough to support this, and we don’t want to make Allegro dependent on any other dynamic linking packages.