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NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) are programs which run on Novell NetWare
server. NLMs become part of the NetWare OS. You can load and unload NLMs while
the server is running.
"Official" compilers for NLMs are:
(On a side note, NetWare 5 can also load 32bit DLLs, which can be built using Microsoft Visual
C++, Borland C++ and other Windows compilers. For more information see
http://developer.novell.com/ndk/dllcomp.htm)
This document describes how to get started with NLM development under Linux (and
possibly other Unixes). Please note that this project is in very early
stages of development, so a lot of things may not work as you'd expect.
This document assumes that you are familiar with Novell NetWare, and that you
have at least basic knowledge of writing NLMs. For more information about
writing NLMs, see Novell's developer site,
http://developer.novell.com/. You should also have experience
with Unix and C/C++ programming with GNU CC. You can find a lot of information
about this topic at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/.
As far as I know, C++ development with gcc is currently impossible,
till somebody ports at least the libstdc++ and libgcc
libraries from the gcc package.
Other documents that might be useful are:
- The IPX-HOWTO, which describes the details of configuring IPX
protocol on Linux.
- The Linux GCC HOWTO, which covers how to set up the GNU C compiler and
development libraries under Linux, and gives an overview of compiling,
linking, running and debugging programs under it.
- The Assembly HOWTO, which describes how to
program in assembly language using FREE programming tools, focusing on
development for or from the Linux Operating System on the i386 platforms.
- The Creating NLMs on Linux x86,
http://home.sch.bme.hu/~keresztg/novell/howto/NLM-Linux-HOWTO.html, by Gabor Keresztvalvi
<keresztg@mail.com>. His page describes the same thing as my HOWTO.
I found Gabor's page ten days after releasing version 0.1 of this document :( .
Copyright (c) 2000 Martin Hinner, <
mhi@penguin.cz>.
This HOWTO is Free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You can obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
02139, USA.
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