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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:15:11 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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).

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