R help - Aug 2006 - open DLL in R

I have downloaded a DLL file. I want to look at the contents in the DLL file.
How can I do it in R?
   
  Thanks,
   
  QL

 		
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On 8/1/2006 1:01 PM, qian li wrote:
> I have downloaded a DLL file. I want to look at the contents in the DLL
file. How can I do it in R?

As far as I know R has no tools to do that other than readBin, which 
will just show you a bunch of meaningless bytes.

If you're on Windows, the MinGW compiler used to build R and packages 
includes objdump and dlltool which can display DLL contents in a human 
readable format.

Duncan Murdoch

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, qian li wrote:
> I have downloaded a DLL file. I want to look at the contents in the DLL
file. How can I do it in R?
You need a disassembler such as VC++'s DUMPBIN, but looking at compiled 
code you did not write is not an easy task.  (Or objdump from the MinGW 
toolset.)

If only you want to know what entry points it exports, use pedump -e for 
the pedump.exe in tools.zip (see the R-admin manual).

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