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Re: Can't build a DLL using gcc
Charles Wilson wrote:
> ...
> You probably *should* use def files if (a) you're developing a library
> that other folks might want to use, without recompiling their
> application code, and (b) you want to support those apps that
> 'import-by-number' from the dll. With the no-def-file method, you're
> never guaranteed that the name/numbers will be the same from build to
> build.
I understand what you are saying, but if developers are using my headers and
my import library to link with my DLL, wouldn't they always be importing by
name? I don't know anything about the import by number method. Why is it
ever used? How is it used? More info, please...
Anyway, I hope at least the information in my message about the alternate
way to build DLLs helped you.
> --Chuck
Carl Thompson
> ...
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