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Date:	Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:06:00 +0400
From:	Maarten Boekhold <boekhold AT emirates DOT net DOT ae>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin's libtool, passing .def file name to gcc during linking
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Ha, who'd have thought...

I found it. I can use '--export-symbols plugin.def' for this. Even 
though the plugin.def doesn't contain exports, but imports... (this is a 
plugin library that invokes functions contained in the executable that 
loads the library...)

Maarten


Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to port an application to Cygwin that uses libtool to drive 
> compilation/linking.
> 
> This application needs to be linked with a ".def" file during the 
> linking stage, i.e. (formatted to make it readable)
> 
> /bin/bash ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2
>                     -o libplugin.la -rpath /usr/local/lib
>                     -no-undefined
>                     -module
>                     libplugin_la-plugin.lo -lgobject-2.0
>                     -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv plugin.def
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
> rm -fr  .libs/libplugin.dll.a
> gcc -shared  .libs/libplugin_la-plugin.o
>     -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.dll.a
>     /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.dll.a /usr/lib/libintl.dll.a
>     /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a  -o .libs/cygplugin-0.dll
>     -Wl,--image-base=0x10000000
>     -Wl,--out-implib,.libs/libplugin.dll.a
> 
> as you see I'm trying to pass a 'plugin.def' filename to libtool, with 
> the intention this shows up in the GCC command. It doesn't, and I can't 
> figure out how to pass this apart from manually hacking libtool.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> (btw. the reason I send this to the cygwin list is that I know the 
> cygwin version of libtool is somewhat hacked. I'm using devel btw.)
> 
> Maarten
> 
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