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Re: Building an import lib from a DLL - egcs 1.1
- To: Colin Peters <colin at fu dot is dot saga-u dot ac dot jp>
- Subject: Re: Building an import lib from a DLL - egcs 1.1
- From: Anders Norlander <anorland at hem2 dot passagen dot se>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 20:01:37 +0200
- CC: GNU-win32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <004201bdf19d$df8a8a80$fa173185@gbird0.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp>
Colin Peters wrote:
...
> Dlltool can't read the exports of a dll and produce the import library or
> .def file, but you don't have to generate them manually (necessarily). There
> is a utility called impdef (you can get it at
> http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/gcc-extra.html ) which will
> output the exports of a dll in the correct format for a .def file.
> Unfortunately it doesn't work with dlls built with the latest MSVC compilers
> (hint hint, anyone available with knowledge and time to fix this?), but it
> does work for some third party dlls. Use it like this:
Do you know a common DLL for which impdef does not work?
I'm looking into the problem, so I'd like to try it.
Anders Norlander
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