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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:10:05 +0400
From: boekhold AT emirates DOT net DOT ae
Subject: Re: Building DLL
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Hi all,

I've been trying the suggestions mentioned on this list:

1. Create an import library
echo EXPORTS > foo.def
nm foo.exe | grep ' T _' | sed 's/.* T _//' >> foo.def
dlltool --def foo.def --dllname foo.exe --output-lib foo.a

I couldn't get this to work. In the executable I am trying to load the
library using g_module_open (from glib2.0), which fails no matter what I
specify for the library name.

2. use __attribute__ ((__dllexport__)) / __attribute__ ((__dllimport__))

compiled with:
> gcc -shared -o my_dll.dll dll.def dll.c
> gcc -o my_exe.exe exe.c  my_dll.dll

Following the suggestions from Danny Smith, I *do* manage to get this
working. However, I'm a little hazy about how to use this method within 
XFCE.

The above compile command creates a my_dll.dll, and g_module_open
manages to open this library. However, XFCE uses libtool for
compiling/linking, and this creates a 'cygmy_dll.dll' in addition to
libmy_dll.dll.a and libmy_dll.la.

In short, I'm not sure how I can integrate this method with all the
automake/libtool stuff.

Does anybody have an example of how to use this method together with
automake/libtool?

Kind regards,

Maarten


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