From: bolo AT cs DOT wisc DOT edu (Josef Burger)
Subject: linking dlls with gnu-win32 binaries
5 Nov 1996 15:08:40 -0800
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I have a dll that I would like to link with a gnu-win32 executable.
To be precise, it is the tcl76.dll from sun's pre-compiled tcl7.6 for
windows-nt package.  My understanding of how this integrates with
gnu-win32 is that a "stub" .a library must be generated that the code
links with.  The stub takes care of forwarding calls to the dll at
runtime.

But ... How do I create the stub library for the tcl dll?  dlltool
seems to be the tool of choice, but it requires an "exports" file,
which I don't have!   Presumably the dll contains the
information to generate the stub, but how do I extract it in a 
form that dlltool can use?

Or... am I on the wrong track?

Thanks for any help!
bolo
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