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Re: How can I get a .dll to resolve at runtime ?


DJ Delorie writes:
 > One thing to try is to export the function with a .DEF file, and see
 > if that works.  You'd have to build an import library for your
 > executable and link the dll against that, but I'm not sure if NT would
 > even *allow* such a hack.

Yes, it works quite well (on Win9x at least). You can specify a .def
file when building an .exe with CL (or LINK), and it produces an
import .LIB. With gcc -mno-cygwin it's quite a bit more convoluted,
but it's possible. I came to the conclusion that with gcc you must
mark the exported functions with __declspec(dllexport), the .def file
is ignored. (And you must do the dance with multiple gcc and dlltool
passes.) I might be wrong...

--tml


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