From: colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: DLL to lib*.a? 3 Apr 1997 00:27:49 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC4042.E7805DE0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'Fergus Henderson'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Fergus Henderson[SMTP:fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au] wrote: >Colin Peters, you wrote: >> >> you can use Windows 95's "Quick View" >> function to examine the exports of the DLL directly > >How do you do this? What is the "Quick View" function? I'm not so sure how much interest there is on the mailing list about this, but here goes. I apologize for the bandwidth to those of you who don't care. Also, I'd point out that there is a free utility, pedump, which does the same thing and is more useful which I would recommend over using Quick View. First, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, and select the Windows Setup tab. Select "Accessories" from the list and click "Details..." Then scroll down a little way and you should see an item "Quick View". Make sure it's checked and then "OK" your way back out to the Control Panel, which you can close. Now go to Explorer and (after setting View, Options, Show All Files so that you can see DLL files) right click on the DLL you want to examine. There should be an option "Quick View" in the menu that pops up, and if you select it you will get a window containing information reminiscent of tdump, dumpbin pedump or other executable file examination programs. A little way down in the display is a section Export Table and a list of function names. Unfortunately you can't take text from this output and put it in the windows clipboard or otherwise copy it without laboriously typing it out again, which is a real pain. Personally I much prefer using pedump, which is also freely available (download with LCC from http://www.remcomp.com/lcc-win32/), even though that requires a bit of file editing as well (but at least no tedious copying). Colin. -- Colin Peters - colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".