X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <182dc94a0805270310h486236bawb4a4c3a0b65c354a@mail.gmail.com> <039b01c8bfe6$7aa70a90$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <483BE7BA.F7358F2@dessent.net> Subject: RE: Urgent !!! Reg Linking sybase DLL in cygwin.. Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:00:58 +0100 Message-ID: <039c01c8bfe8$f160a5e0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <483BE7BA.F7358F2@dessent.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Brian Dessent wrote on 27 May 2008 11:52: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> So, there is no debug info in the DLL. In that case, you need to get >> the list of exports to make the .def file some other way: perhaps you >> can run 'pexports' on it, or in a last resort DUMPBIN, and you may need >> to do some hand-editing of the .def file that results. See here: > > That's a lot of extra work for no good reason. GNU ld can link directly > against a DLL without using any import lib, just specify its filename on > the link command. I keep forgetting it can do that these days :( > The only real reason you need an import library is if > you're doing things like adding aliases for symbol names, or you need to > remove stdcall name decorations. (Or if you need the name indirection > that an import library provides, e.g. being able to have -lfoo refer to > libfoo.dll.a which refers to cygfoo-12.dll.) But if you simply want to > link against a DLL you can do so directly without any of the mess of > pexports or def files or import libs or whatnot. Perhaps it's time that OP explain exactly /what/ the problem is; I did assume that a straightforward "-lfoo" must already have not worked in some way. Mani? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/