RE: [Devel] Win32 library does not work in VC++ 6.0

[Jan Slupski]

On 2 Aug 2002, Vincent Caron wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 00:27, Jan Slupski wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Could you please write how to create DLL from freetype?
> > I tried with VisualStudio 6.0 using ide, gnu make, jam,
> > but I couldn't figure how to obtain anythig else than static freetype.lib.
> 
> FreeType2 does not seem to have a VC6 project to build as a DLL, that
> could be added to the distribution I think (but David will rightfully
> that it is another stupid build file to sync with the rest :)).
> 
> There also lacks a mean of exporting and importing sybmols, a tedious
> tasks that DLLs impose. When building the DLL, one must explicitely
> 'export' every public symbol. This can be done either by preceding each
> symbol declaration by a blurb :
> 
>   FT_EXPORT( FT_Error ) __declspec(dllexport) FT_Face_New(...);
> 
> that would need some more tweaking in <freetype/config/ftconfig.h>. Or
> one can write a standalone 'freetype.def' file listing the symbol names
> to export and pass it to the linker.
> 
> Either way, you still a mean to 'import' symbol as the DLL user, it
> means that when building against FreeType DLL you'll have to include
> this proto :
> 
>   FT_EXPORT( FT_Error ) __declspec(dllimport) FT_Face_New(...);


Thanks.

But my main problem now is - 
What command I should issue to get DLL.
I assume that standard 'make' or 'jam' is not enough...
 
> And this one is sadly mandatory AFAIK. I only discovered this 'DLL Hell'
> two weeks ago, I'm from the Unix world. 

Me too ;)

Jan
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