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Subject:	Import library for symbols decl. without dllimport
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Greetings! I have a question for the DLL and ld gurus.

Is it possible to create an import library for ld on Win32 that will 
fulfill function and data symbols that were not declared with the 
dllimport attribute?

For example, the variable myvar is declared in unit.c as:
extern int myvar;

I would want to be able to fulfill myvar from either a static library or 
a DLL as desired, without having to recompile unit.c.

The above example is a very simple one. What I'm actually working on is 
the use of shared (DLL) versions of GCC's support libraries -- currently 
libstdc++. None of the libstdc++ declarations are marked 
__declspec(dllimport), and when it comes time to link with it I get 
messages like the following:
Info: resolving std::cout  by linking to __imp___ZSt4cout (auto-import)
This of course works fine, but it's sub-optimal; I would like for the 
message not to be displayed at all, and I imagine that the auto-import 
machinery shouldn't even need to be activated if the import library for 
the libstdc++ DLL is properly designed. Also, hiding the message with 
--enable-auto-import would also hide similar messages from other 
libraries that I *would* want to see.

Thanks in advance,
John E.

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