NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) are programs which run on Novell NetWare server (NLMs become part of NetWare OS). You can load and unload NLMs while server is running.
"Official" compilers for NLMs are:
(NetWare 5 can also load 32bit DLLs, which can be build using Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++ and other Windows compilers. But this is not our topic.)
This document describes how to start 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 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 have also 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/.
Other documents that might be useful are:
Copyright (c) 2000 Martin Hinner, < mhi@penguin.cz>.
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