Converting .DLL to .SO - windows

Can any one of you help me in converting an windows dll file in a .so file.

You might try re-compiling the source code to the dll to a shared object. This may help you get started, after ensuring the code is indeed portable.
Edit:
Here is yet another link that can help guide you through the process of creating a shared library using GCC and other parts of the GNU tool chain. This link will help you to discover pitfalls that other people had when undertaking a project similar to this.
There is only so much help that can be provided for such a specific task, especially with so many unknowns. If you elect to provide more information in your question, please leave a comment.
NB: I'm pulling these links right out of Google.

If you don't have the source, or can't recompile, you may be able to run the code under Wine.

You need to recompile again into an .so file.

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Android NDK debugging (project created with make i.e. Android.mk)

I've spent way too much time until now so I need you help friends, here's the deal:
I need to have a native debugger to debug some C files I am creating in the project which use a prebuilt C library I have.
I can do the debugging with:
the GDB right? nope! because it does not work with make files.
the GDB and use the ndk-build script, fine, I can do that, but now I cannot include a search path into the script, I tried a cFlag, different things, does not work.
What should I do? how the ... should I debug my code and have some a search paths for the prebuilt library?
I hope I am clear, please ask questions, will answer any of them! Thanks friends.

How to Publish/Export wxWidgets Application

newbie here.
Want to ask for any advice on how to Publish/Export, CodeBlocks Application made by using wxWidgets. After some research, i discovered that i should use DLL, or something like that, but since I am really new into it, I am missing the logic on how I should actually implement that. Since CodeBlocks offers wxWidgets and DLL as separate projects. So I am not really sure how to properly combine. Thanks in advance.
If you used wxWidgets as .dll, to get a self-standing package you have to distribute all the requested libraries. The simplest way is just to copy them from their source folder (in your case [wxWidgets root]\lib\gcc_dll) in the same folder as your executable. There could be many of them, but usually only two or three are needed. For simplicity you can copy them all, or you can try repeatedly to start the program, and add each time the library indicated in the error message.
Please note that to distribute your application you will probably want to compile it in Release mode, and consequently you should ship the Release .dlls (i.e. beginning with wx...28_ instead of wx...28d_).

How to add an object file to every link

There is a bug in RHEL5's gcc-4.3.2 with which we are stuck. As a work-around we have extracted the missing object and put it in an object file. Adding this object file to every link makes the problem go away.
While adding it directly to LDFLAGS seems like a good solution, this doesn't work since e.g. libtool cannot cope with non-la files in there.
A slightly more portable solution seems to be to directly patch the gcc spec to add this to every link. I came up with
*startfile:
+ %{shared-libgcc:%{O*:%{!O0:/PATH/TO/ostream-inst.o}}}
where ostream-inst.o is added to the list of startfiles used in the link when compiling a shared library with optimizations.
Trying to compile boost with this spec gives some errors though since its build directly sets some objects with ld's --startgroup/--endgroup.
How should I update that spec to cover that case as well, or even better, all cases?
Go through this URL Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them and GCC Command Options
If this help you, thats great.
I know this is not the answer you want to hear (since you specified otherwise in your question), but you are running into trouble here and are likely to run into more since your compiler is buggy. You should find a way of replacing it, since you'll find yourself writing even more work-around code the next time some obscure build system comes along. There's not only bjam out there.
Sorry I can't help you more. You might try simply writing a .lo file by hand (it's a two-liner, after all) and insert it into your LDFLAGS.
If it is a bug of GCC 4.3, did you try to build (by compiling from sources) and use a newer GCC. GCC 4.6.2 is coming right now. Did you consider using it?

Where are the files necessary to modify when adding a system call to linux-2.6.31

when i search for adding a system call, i get many articles but they seem to be for old versions, it also seems like a trivial process.
But the problem is, the directories that articles suggest does not hold for the version 2.6.31. does anyone know where unistd.h, syscall_table.S and syscalls.h or their corresponding files are?
Thanks in advance.
for unistd.h : $SOURCE_PATH/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
for syscalls.h : $SOURCE_PATH/arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h
for syscall_table_32.h : $SOURCE_PATH/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.h
obviously i'm on x86 machine.
On most Linux systems such header files can be found under:
/usr/src/kernels/$KERNEL-VERSION/include/linux/
You need to have your kernel sources installed to be able to do any kernel development though, if that's what're trying to do, since unistd.h is part of the standard gcc library as well.

How do I know which OSBundleLibrary to include when using XCode?

It seems that I am doing something wrong or the linker is not very good in xcode (I imagine is the first situation :) ) but I found that I need to manually add the OSBundleLibrary references on the plist.
The problem is that sometimes I don't know which bundles should I include, for example, I am building a kernel extension and I am using VFS, it compiles but when I try to load it into the kernel it complains that it can not resolve all the VFS functions.
I usually include "com.apple.kernel.bsd" but when I check samples of VFS I can see "com.apple.kpi.bsd", a bit confusing.
Can anyone share some light?
Thanks!
I found the solution, there is a reference link with all the extensions:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KEXTConcept/KEXTConceptDependencies/kext_dependencies.html

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