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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:41:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Exporting symbols from a .exe
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 
> With MSVC you don't have to do anything special.  If I try --shared, the
> executable just doesn't work.

Coming in late on this, and DJ has already explained the issues,
specifically regarding how --shared assumes a DLL. Not hard to remove
that restriction, but I really ought need to look at the code before 
making such assertions. I always used the old scheme for building
executables that export it's symbols (ld + dlltool multipass or using
dllwrap).

I'll do a few simple experiments with MSVC and see what goes on in there.
I'm curious -- is there a particular application of this in Cygwin runtime?

Regards,
Mumit