dlopen on win32 ?

I spent today getting Larceny to build on Cygwin. After I finished getting something that seemd to evaluate simple Scheme expressions, I tried dynamic loading. And it didn't work.

So at last I realized that I had been misinterpreting many of Lars' statements: dynamic loading doesn't work at all on Windows (even under Cygwin, which was the key bit I was missing).

Thus began a huge quest to figure out how dynamic loading works on Windows. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Here are some links I've found trying to explain it to Unix-heads like myself (or just looked interesting as I browsed over the Google output).

• ld and WIN32 (cygwin/mingw)
  
• Windows vs Unix linking dynamic module
  
• Dynamic Linking and Loading
  
• Re: Need internal help please (dynamic loading support)
  
• Enhanced Dynamic Linking for MS-Windows
  
• Dynamic Class Loading for C++ on Linux
  
• C++ dlopen mini HOWTO
  
• User defined main()
  
• RE: Dynamic loading on Cygwin - status
  

I think I need to pay special attention to the "Gimp" solution documented on the EDLL page; I don't mind writing a .def file that has all the millicode routines listed in it.