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Re: Building non-cygwin DLL with cyg-gcc


"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> 
> nate@rootlabs.com wrote:
> [snip]
> > And of course, this makes sense because ld seems to be trying to export all
> > symbols.  I have my own .def file with the desired exports listed, but I can't
> > figure out how to get ld to use it.  It seems like ld has no equivalent of
> > the --def switch of dlltool (shown in the UG method).
> >
> > Is it possible to get ld to reference an exports file using the ML method?  If
> > not, what's the recommended method for building a non-cygwin DLL using cyg gcc?
> 
> just put the .def file in with the list of .o's to be included in the
> dll.
> 
> > BTW, I still can't figure out the difference between mingw, w32api, and
> > -mno-cygwin.  I assume they're all different pieces of the same codebase.
> 
> w32api is the place where Win32-specific #include files are stored.
> Cygwin puts them there to keep the separate from the 'cygwin' #include
> files.  These files are used by cygwin gcc, cygwin-gcc with -mno-cygwin
> switch, and by mingw gcc (although the mingw distro puts them somewhere
> else).
> 
> -mno-cygwin turns the cygwin gcc into a cross-compiler,
> host=i686-pc-cygwin and target=i686-pc-win32.
> 

Just a few nit-picks.  Change the win32 to mingw32, that's what the
target is.

> mingw is a totally native version of gcc for win32.  Not even gcc.exe
> from the mings distro depends on cygwin1.dll.  Thus, host=i686-pc-win32
> and target=i686-pc-win32.
> 

Again change the win32 to mingw32.  I'm nit-picking because that's what
autoconfiguration expects.

Earnie.

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