Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:15:11 -0400 Message-Id: <200010131715.NAA20455@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: venkat AT comit DOT com CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <14823.16955.691000.133858@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (message from Venkat Iyer on Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:11:23 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)) Subject: Re: Solution: Exporting symbols from an executable References: <14823 DOT 16955 DOT 691000 DOT 133858 AT gargle DOT gargle DOT HOWL> > The main thing I was missing is that you HAVE to create a .exp file. > Since most other dlltool functionality is subsumed by ld, I wonder why > this isn't. Or if there's some option that I couldn't figure out. Setting up the exports is only done when building a dll (--shared). I don't see why it couldn't be enabled for all cases, but usually exe's don't need one. > My biggest concern is that I skipped the base file creation (from the > five step process). Things still seem to work. Does it matter? No. The base file is only used if you want to build a *relocatable* image, but executables are never relocated (for 9x/NT at least). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com