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Re: Linking in to Windows DLL's
- To: richard dot jones at ibahealthcare dot com
- Subject: Re: Linking in to Windows DLL's
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:08:54 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <6325E90C8B6ED21189080001FA7E2ADA0D4082@IBA1>
If you have a recent linker, it can link directly against a DLL
without needing an import library. However, this only works if the
import library doesn't include any special name mappings or extra
static code.
> Just a quick note to say that i have managed to link cygwin code against
> Oracle 8 for NT by just renaming the dll's library file to oci32.o.
> This seems to work fine (all the manuals and FAQ's require extracting the
> symbol's out of the dll itself), and it "seems" to work correctly.
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