DLL calling a DLL: undefined reference when linking.

Elfyn McBratney elfyn-cygwin@exposure.org.uk
Sun Feb 23 02:43:00 GMT 2003


>     I think I'm making marvelous progress.  Unfortunately, I'm getting an
> error that doesn't make sense:
>
> $g++ -shared -mno-cygwin -o dllhello.dll dllhello.o
> other.dll -Wl,--out-implib,libdllhello.a -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup
> Creating library file: libdllhello.a
> dllhello.o(.text+0x164):dllhello.C: undefined reference to `InitAPI@4'
>
> In my source code, the offending call is:
>
> extern "C" PASCAL void InitAPI( int handle );


Does dllhello.c include a header containing the prototype of InitAPI or have
a declaration of InitAPI? I think that's the gotcha.


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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