DllMain?

[Parker]

I've been thinking about this, how to have an optional DllMain function in Aurora for those who want some loading to be done automatically like the Scintilla DLL, and I think I've come up with a solution.

By default, there would be an extra global variable that is declared like this in the asm file

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_dllmain db 0

But you can override that with a preprocessor directive:

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#dllmain MyDllMain
which would output this instead

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_dllmain db $MyDllMain

Then in the Aurora dllstartup.o we would have some code that calls the _dllmain variable if it is not 0.

I really would like to see something like this in a future update, it can differ from my idea, that's just how I figured out it could work.

Maybe the global variable could contain something that NASM accepts but Aurora doesn't like the @, #, or ? so as not to conflict with existing variables.

Thanks,
Parker