Building an import lib from a DLL - egcs 1.1

Anders Norlander anorland@hem2.passagen.se
Thu Oct 8 15:29:00 GMT 1998


Colin Peters wrote:
...
> Dlltool can't read the exports of a dll and produce the import library or
> .def file, but you don't have to generate them manually (necessarily). There
> is a utility called impdef (you can get it at
> http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/gcc-extra.html ) which will
> output the exports of a dll in the correct format for a .def file.
> Unfortunately it doesn't work with dlls built with the latest MSVC compilers
> (hint hint, anyone available with knowledge and time to fix this?), but it
> does work for some third party dlls. Use it like this:

Do you know a common DLL for which impdef does not work?
I'm looking into the problem, so I'd like to try it.

Anders Norlander
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