dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins) (02/14/89)
Okay, I give up. I have RTFM about ten times now on four different
manuals, and I can't figure it out.
How do I create a custom library?
I know about MakeLibrary and AddLibrary and those calls, from the
RKMs. What I mean is, how can I create a library that resides on disk, and
is loaded when someone first does an OpenLibrary on it?
I was thinking about building an ARexx library to provide an interface
to Graphics.library, so I can hack around with graphics in ARexx. If it
turned out not to be too difficult, I might even build ARexx libraries to
interface to all the other standard system libraries.
So what's the trick?
Dan Hankinsdan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins) (02/17/89)
Okay, let me rephrase the question, now that I know the basics of
creating a library:
Is there any general technique for creating an Amiga disk-based
library which does not resort to assembler? For instance, can the jump
vectors be loaded when the library is opened for the first time?
I'm working in Modula-2, which does not have static initialization of
data structures. To build a library in Modula-2 without linking to
assembler code, I would have to be able to load the jump vectors when the
library is loaded, and not before. Is this possible?
Dan Hankinspapa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (02/17/89)
In article <14630@cup.portal.com> dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins) writes: | Okay, I give up. I have RTFM about ten times now on four different |manuals, and I can't figure it out. | | How do I create a custom library? | | I know about MakeLibrary and AddLibrary and those calls, from the |RKMs. What I mean is, how can I create a library that resides on disk, and |is loaded when someone first does an OpenLibrary on it? The 'old' RKMs have a "skeleton" library, written in assembler (mylib.asm), at the end of Vol.2. I am sure these sources are also in the Addison- -Wesley manuals. Another example you might want to look at are the sources of midi.library. These have been posted a while back on usenet (and so you can find them in one of the usual places) and arwe on one of the Fish Disks. This one also is in assembler. A while back, Matt Dillon posted on Usenet a "skeleton" library written for MANX C, too. All of this should give you a good start. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) (02/18/89)
One of the recent Amiga Transactor's had an article on creating libraries. I think it was issue 4 or 5. Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com) Can you "Spot the Looney"?
bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt) (02/18/89)
In article <14630@cup.portal.com> dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins) writes: | | Okay, I give up. I have RTFM about ten times now on four different |manuals, and I can't figure it out. | How do I create a custom library? Find the "sample library" example: It's Appendix K in the White RKM Volume 2 It's Appendix F in the Addison-Wesley RKM: Libraries and Devices -- |\_/| . ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH! {O o} . Bryce Nesbitt (") BIX: bnesbitt U USENET: cbmvax!bryce@uunet.uu.NET -or- rutgers!cbmvax!bryce Disclaimer: I'm not an official, and this is not an official opinion.