Re: MinGW link against an MS Windows import library

[Bill Jones]

Thanks, but I tried this without success as noted in attempt 4) in my 
original post.  It is my understanding that you should not link directly 
against a Windows .dll file, but instead link against the import library 
(.lib).  In any event, "-Lpath -lfoo" does produce my DLL when path was 
set to the path of the .dll file but it was not loadable.

I should probably add that my DLL loader functions correctly for similar 
libtool modules I build that do not require linking against any 3rd 
party .lib files.

wtj

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Tim Van Holder wrote:
>
> > Bill Jones wrote:
> >
> > > So the basic question is how do I specify a static import library 
> > > with a *.lib extension to be used by libtool for resolving the 
> > > symbols provided by a non-libtool DLL when building a dependent DLL 
> > > with libtool?
> >
> >
> >
> > The trivial solution is of course to make a copy of the third-party .lib
> > file with a .a extension (the file format is identical anyway).
> > Alternatively, you may be able to create a fresh .a from the DLL using
> > 'dllwrap --implib <dllname> -o <libname>', but it's likely that that
> > won't have all the necessary symbols.
>
>
> Or just use the dll itself in the link.  Note if the library references 
> C++ objects, then you are going to be hard pressed for an easy 
> solution.  See www.mingw.org and it's list archives for more information.
>
> Earnie

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