3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
1:05 p.m.
Let me chime in, before you get yourselves in another mess
For your information: As there were no more comments
on this, I started
working on a tool now, which transforms .spec files into both GNU and MSVC
.def files.
You _do_ know that Microsoft's linker tools have only limited support
for .def files, right? That you cannot create __stdcall exports without
also exporting the decoration, unless the functions were marked as
__declspec(dllexport)? and that in the latter case it's much easier to
let the linker process the compiled .obj files to extract the dllexport
directives to produce a .exp and a .lib file? hence, that the best way
to produce import/export libraries is to turn the .spec file not into a
.def, but into a .c/.cpp with dummy implementations of each function and
a __declspec(dllexport) attribute, compile it and run the linker on the
generated .obj file? Spare yourself the pain I went through. Think about it