Subject: Re: Building DLL
From: Danny Smith <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:13:46 +1200

Maarten wrote

> Sorry, searched for that, but couldn't come up with any references of
> using dlltool in combination with an executable.

Try this:

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/* dll.c */

#include <stdio.h>

extern __attribute__ ((__dllimport__)) void
exe_hello(void);

void __attribute__ ((__dllexport__))
dll_hello (void)
{
  printf ("Are you there, exe?\n");
  exe_hello();

}

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/* dll.def */

LIBRARY my_dll.dll

IMPORTS
exe_hello = my_exe.exe.exe_hello

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/* exe.c */

#include <stdio.h>

extern void  __attribute__ ((dllexport))
dll_hello (void);

void  __attribute__ ((dllexport))
exe_hello ()
{
  printf ("Yes, the exe is here,\n");
}

int main()
{
 dll_hello();

 return 0;
}
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gcc -shared -o my_dll.dll dll.def dll.c
gcc -o my_exe.exe exe.c  my_dll.dll

You can do the same thing with import libs if you want, but
using a def file is much simpler. 

Danny

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