From:	garya AT fltdyn DOT com ("Gary Albert")
Subject:	RE: DLLTOOL documentation?
27 Mar 1997 09:27:55 -0800 :
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> Bruce James[SMTP:bjames AT clear DOT net DOT nz] wrote:
> 
> 2. What's the Gnu equivalent of Borland's IMPLIB for generating an import
> library from a DLL?
> 

I have found that dlltool can do the equivalent of IMPLIB. Doing 
"dlltool --help" gives just enough info to figure it out. All I've 
had to do is:

    dlltool --output-lib somedll.a --dllname somedll.dll

This will create the ".a" file for linking with ld. It can take quite 
a while to run but it seems to work fine. I've used this method to 
actually build a lib for X11 from an X11.dll file I found on the net 
somewhere and it worked great.

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Gary Albert
Flight Dynamics
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