From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: Building an import lib from a DLL - egcs 1.1 8 Oct 1998 18:04:54 -0700 Message-ID: References: <3.0.2.32.19981006235507.006c5038@email.mcmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Thomas Nichols Cc: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Thomas Nichols wrote: > but the only docs I can find at Mumit's site are the ones on *creating* > reloc DLLs, which I'd already studied. I tried > > dlltool --output-def mSQL.def --export-all-symbols --dllname mSQL.dll Sorry, but dlltool isn't designed for this. You can use a combination of 'nm' and 'sed' etc if the DLL doesn't have symbols stripped. > from Mumit Khan, saying that he used the Borland BC5 "impdef" tool to do > what I'm trying to do. Actually, the pointer I gave was a version by Colin Peters, which coincidentally has the same name as Borland's one. I also suppliedo in that message an URL to a microsoft's version that you can download. One of these, I'll just break down and write one of these from scratch so that there is no copyright/licensing issues with the ones you get from the net. That day may be far away however ... Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".