Re: [RFA] pei386 dll: auto-import patch

["Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry at baikal dot ru>]

"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:09:42PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> >RC> 4) If so, how hard a patch to dlltool would that be?
> >
> >    I propose to deprecate dlltool - it stayed behind development for
> >some time now (more precisely: ld's support of .def directives is more
> >comprehensive than dlltool's, but you better ask DJ about this). You
> >can do this now:
> >
> >> ld --shared foo.def -o foo.dll --out-implib=liba.a
> >
> >it does the job, but outputs undefineds:
> >
> >> Cannot export bar: symbol not defined
> >> Cannot export foo: symbol not defined
> >> Creating library file: liba.a
> >
> >It needs to be patched to suppress them. Note that -o is used to
> >specify name to put into implib (alternatively, LIBRARY clause in .def
> >can be used).
> 
> I think it is a good idea to deprecate dlltool.

As I already pointed out to DJ ld can't handle forwards in a .def file
while dlltool does it fine. Some time ago I had sent patch to dlltool to
correctly handle -k (--kill-at) switch while generating .exp file. With
that patch I was able to compile and link my very large windows project,
while ld didn't work for me at all. I'm sorry, I didn't find time yet to
figure out a weak/missing ld functionality.
--
Dmitry.