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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:05:14 +0300
From: Jani tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Building DLL
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Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> 
> 
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>> You don't need .def files on Cygwin.  Just add -no-undefined to
>> libxyz_LDFLAGS.
> 
> 
> OK, I'm making progress with getting XFCE to compile under cygwin (with 
> help of one of the XFCE developers), but now we're running into the 
> following:
> 
> XFCE has a plugin mechanism, based on shared libraries. These plugins 
> use functions/symbols from the program that they 'plug in to'. I.e. if I 
> have appA, and libB is a plugin for appA, then libB contains calls that 
> are defined in appA.
> 
> How do I get this to work under cygwin? Obviously I can't link libB 
> against appA!

Done this, been there. And it's all possible.. =)

<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg01071.html>

You can use DLLTOOL to produce .def files from .exe if needed so you
don't have to do them by hand. But in most cases you just need few funcs
or variables it's simpler to write .def by hand.

-- 

Jani Tiainen


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