From: jrussell@voicenet.com (J Russell Smyth) Subject: Re: .def files for stdcall functions (was: linking problems with 17 Sep 1997 19:50:36 -0700 Message-ID: <341FEB19.F55DD05B.cygnus.gnu-win32@voicenet.com> References: <199709170927.LAA170022@sp055.cern.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: fine@mail.cern.ch Cc: Colin Peters , gunther.ebert@ixos-leipzig.de, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Valery Fine wrote: > On 17 Sep 97 at 15:45, Colin Peters wrote: > > > > MS used to supply just both kind of the entry points with its > library @NN AND "plain" one as an alias of the first one. (at least > it is always true for MS Fortran. > It fits all needs I guess. I wonder COFF format allows aliases. Why > GNU tools can not employ the same approach ? This is exactly the temporary fix I have applied to my work .. generating@nn and aliasing to "plain" in the .def files.. it is just a lot of extra work, and to me it is messy as ms dll's dont need to do it! (at least not as shows in their exports!) Russ Smyth jrussell@voicenet.com > > > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".