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Re: Linking in to Windows DLL's



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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