From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: Re: New import library format proposal.
16 Apr 1998 08:53:08 -0700
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   Date: 16 Apr 1998 11:12:45 -0400
   From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)

   I've been dreaming about this for a while, too.  Is there any reason,
   other than speed, that dlltool couldn't emit C code to generate its
   import library?  That would make this slightly easier to play with.

It would make it a lot harder to incorporate the dlltool functionality
into the linker.  The linker can't reasonably invoke the compiler.  It
leads into a lot of problems about locating the precise compiler to
use and the precise set of options to pass it.

Ian