From: "Bernard Delmée" <bdelmee@...>
Date: 2001-12-24T08:17:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29382] Re: x.dll versus x.lib in mswin32 ruby

> Does this mean that I cannot use DLL's in mswin32 Ruby?  This doesn't make
> any sense.

Naturally you can; DLL's are used at run-time (and hold the actual code),
whereas LIB's are used at build/link time (and only hold relocation info).
This is similar to .so vs .a on *nix.

HTH.