Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:26:42 -0500 From: "Scott A. Smith" Subject: RE: .dll.a, .dll files and other questions In-reply-to: <20021206013213.GA5383@redhat.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:19:27PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >>those links on (http://cygwin.com/docs.html) describing how to build dlls >>seem to be utterly outdated. cgf wrote: > Nope. Recently updated. After reading the above, I had a look hoping to find more (updated) information on this DLL business. Am I looking at the same links? The one for relocatable DLLs http://cygwin.com/building-reloc-dlls.txt is dated 1997, the one for helpful hints references Cygwin b17 http://cygwin.com/dll-hints.txt and the one for more information doesn't work at all at the moment http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/. I was told months ago on this list that use of dlltool was deprecated and no longer necessary at all, yet that is commonly invoked in the above references. As I recall, the latest dllhelpers does not even use dlltool? So I am confused. Although I have muddled my way through building DLLs with Cygwin, I cannot find the updated dox mentioned. Sorry, I simply don't understand DLL's well enough myself to submit anything....... but I can say that dllhelpers did allow me to figure how to build DLLs using what I believe to be the most "modern" means of doing so with Cygwin/GCC. Regards, Scott -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/