From: thomas DOT nichols AT iname DOT com (Thomas Nichols)
Subject: Building an import lib from a DLL - egcs 1.1
6 Oct 1998 08:22:46 -0700
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Hello,

Please excuse this message if it's in the wrong place - the egcs mailing
list seems to be un*x rather than win32, is that right?

I have a DLL - mSQL.dll from the MiniSQL package at
http://www.hughes.com.au - for which I want to generate an import library
for use with the egcs 1.1 compiler. I can't get dlltool to do what I want.

I need basically the same behaviour I'd get from Watcom's wlink
    - input a DLL
    - output an import lib with stubs for all exported functions.

Can I do this? Do I have to write a manual DEF file with an entry for each
export? Do I then have to work out the size of the parameters and set the
suffix to @4, @8 etc? This is how I got the Bullet library at
http://www.40th.com - very fast database engine -working some time ago, and
I don't fancy it for the whole mSQL API. I just want to use the mSQL.dll
functions in my code while using the egcs compiler - is it possible?

Any feedback very welcome,
Thanks,
Tom.




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