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Date:	Tue, 23 May 2000 10:08:54 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	richard DOT jones AT ibahealthcare DOT com
CC:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to:	<6325E90C8B6ED21189080001FA7E2ADA0D4082@IBA1> (message from
	Richard Jones on Tue, 23 May 2000 14:56:44 +0100)
Subject:	Re: Linking in to Windows DLL's
References:	<6325E90C8B6ED21189080001FA7E2ADA0D4082 AT IBA1>

If you have a recent linker, it can link directly against a DLL
without needing an import library.  However, this only works if the
import library doesn't include any special name mappings or extra
static code.

> Just a quick note to say that i have managed to link cygwin code against
> Oracle 8 for NT by just renaming the dll's library file to oci32.o.
> This seems to work fine (all the manuals and FAQ's require extracting the
> symbol's out of the dll itself), and it "seems" to work correctly.

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