RE: Lua DLL name (Was: [ANN] LuaODE 0.3)

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

Antonio Scuri wrote:
>   So LuaBinaries does NOT deviates from the "standard" since there is
> no standard in UNIX. So the Makefile had to be changed to match the
> LuaBinaries standard.  

I can't point you to any standard, but we can look at what exists and do
the same. On Unix, dll have full version name in the form
something.so.5.1.1 with symbolic links without version number pointing
to it. On windows there is no symbolic link, so the version number has
to be in the linked dll name (the name that is hardcoded in other dll
and exe using the versionned dll). That coupled with the old 8.3 naming
scheme that survived well after DOS died, this number has to be very
short. I looked at my C:\Windows\system32 directory for a list of
versionned dll in there (list follows). Most of these versionned dll
have a 2 digit (sometimes 3) version number, without dots, dashes or
underscores before or between digits, for example msvcrt40.dll or
msvcp71.dll. That's not a "standard" as in ECMA or ISO approved
standard, and OS files themselves have no version in the file name
(because win32 API is backward compatible), but it's a pretty common
naming scheme in Windows world (enforced by Microsoft compiler C/C++
runtime dll).

Here is the list:

MFC71.dll
atl70.dll
atl71.dll
c_g18030.dll
c_is2022.dll
d3dim700.dll
d3dx9_24.dll
d3dx9_25.dll
d3dx9_26.dll
d3dx9_27.dll
d3dx9_28.dll
d3dx9_29.dll
d3dx9_30.dll
d3dx9_31.dll
d3dx9_32.dll
d3dx9d_28.dll
d3dx9d_30.dll
d3dx9d_31.dll
d3dx9d_32.dll
divx_xx07.dll
divx_xx11.dll
dpl100.dll
dpu10.dll
dpu11.dll
dpuGUI10.dll
dpuGUI11.dll
dpus11.dll
dpv11.dll
dtu100.dll
esent97.dll
jet500.dll
jgaw400.dll
jgdw400.dll
jgmd400.dll
jgpl400.dll
jgsd400.dll
jgsh400.dll
kbd101.dll
kbd103.dll
kbd106.dll
kbdhe220.dll
kbdhe319.dll
kbdibm02.dll
kbdit142.dll
kbdmlt47.dll
kbdmlt48.dll
kbdnec95.dll
kd1394.dll
licmgr10.dll
mfc40.dll
mfc42.dll
mfc70.dll
msexch40.dll
msexcl40.dll
msjet40.dll
msjetoledb40.dll
msjint40.dll
msjter40.dll
msjtes40.dll
msls31.dll
msltus40.dll
mspbde40.dll
msrclr40.dll
msrd2x40.dll
msrd3x40.dll
msrecr40.dll
msrepl40.dll
mstext40.dll
msvbvm50.dll
msvbvm60.dll
msvci70.dll
msvcp50.dll
msvcp60.dll
msvcp70.dll
msvcp71.dll
msvcr70.dll
msvcr71.dll
msvcrt20.dll
msvcrt40.dll
mswdat10.dll
mswstr10.dll
msxbde40.dll
python24.dll
qt-dx331.dll
riched20.dll
rnr20.dll
sprio600.dll
sprio800.dll
usp10.dll