Subject: RE: Building DLL
From: "Dave Korn" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Cygwin List'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:55:07 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
> Sent: 07 July 2004 17:35

> Maarten wrote:

> which needs to
> > be built as a shared library. Dbh uses libtool in its build process.
> 
> > Of course this complains with
> 
> >         libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in
> >         i686-pc-cygwin shared libraries
> 
> > As far as I know, to get this to build I need to create a 
> .def file, and
> > somehow include this in the libtool invocation.
> 
> > Are there some general hints to determine which 
> functions/symbols need
> > to be included in this .def file, and how to modify the libtool 
> > invocation to use this file?
> 
> You don't need .def files on Cygwin.  Just add -no-undefined to
> libxyz_LDFLAGS.

  Do you perhaps mean "--allow-shlib-undefined"?  A quick glance at the ld
--help output suggests that's more like what's needed, isn't it?

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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