hi, I have a dll and an executable. The dll contains quite a bit of API and code which are usually used by other libraries, but, in this case, the main executable is not interested in the API. The main executable just wants to load the dll in memory and make sure that the dll's init and fini entry points are executed. So, there are a number of options: - from the executable, do a dlopen at runtime to load the dll - call one of the many functions of the dll API to make sure that the dll will be mapped in memory - rework the code to make the dll export an explicit initialization function and call that function from every client Clearly, what I am after is a solution which just adds more crap to my build system without impacting the source code so, I wonder if it is possible to force my linker to record a dependency between the main binary and the dll even though there are no symbols imported and, if I were to be able to record that dependency, if the resulting piece of crap would work. I think that I am trying to do something evil but, I can't make myself feel ashamed about it :/ Mathieu
