Trouble linking against vendor supplied DLL.

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Use dlltools and dllwrap to create libuniverse.a from vendor
supplied
universe.dll.  It is simple.  Search mail archive, you will 100s of
messages discussing dlltool and dllwrap.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Eliot Muir
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:30 PM
> To: 'Charles Krug Jr.'; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Trouble linking against vendor supplied DLL.
>
>
> Not surprising - the import library is specific to the compiler
> - in fact VC5 chokes on VC6's import libraries.
>
> I'm not exactly sure how you would begin to export dll symbols
> for gcc under cygwin.
>
> One possible option is to use the dumpbin
> utility from VC to find out the export functions in the DLL and
> then use LoadLibrary etc. to manually load the DLL and find
> the function addresses etc. to manipulate it.
>
> Cheers,
> Eliot
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Charles Krug Jr. [SMTP:charles@pentek.com]
> Sent:	Friday, November 19, 1999 6:22 AM
> To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Trouble linking against vendor supplied DLL.
>
> Hello List:
>
> I'm building a program and trying to link against a
> vendor supplied .dll
> using their .lib file.  The code in question has
> successfully been built
> under VC.  I'm now attempting to build under cygwin.
>
> This is supposed to be a Win32 console application.
>
> Using this command:
>
> gcc -Wall -omyapp.exe mysource.c c:/universe/lib/universe.lib
>
> This results in myapp.exe being built.
>
> Then I run myapp, and get a Win GUI message box:
>
> "The procedure entry point could not be located in the
> dynamic link
> library universe.dll"
>
> I'm thinking either I gave incorrect arguments to gcc or
> that I have
> some installation issue with the dll.  The absence of any
> procedure name
> in the message box makes me suspect arguments for some reason.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this that could shed some light?
>
> Thanx
>
>
> Charles
>
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