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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:28:24 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: stefan AT lkcc DOT org
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006232305250.7256-100000@bono.reversers.net>
	(message from stefan on Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:10:17 +0200 (CEST))
Subject: Re: DLL Data Symbols
References:  <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 10 DOT 10006232305250 DOT 7256-100000 AT bono DOT reversers DOT net>


> But another question is, if it is possible to link against the dll itself
> or is it really neccessary to build the apropiate link library via
> "dlltool --output-lib" ?

You can link directly against a dll with the latest linker.  Just
specify it on the command line like any other object file.

> Maybe it is also possible to create a dll directly by gcc, thus we
> do not need "dllwrap" and "dlltool --export-all --def" ?

You can create DLLs with "gcc -shared" (or at least "ld -shared") but
do read the mail archives about this; there are some gotchas.

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