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Re: Using Sybase DLLs from Cygwin apps
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:18, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Michael Peppler wrote:
>
> > [ Note - I'm a Unix/linux person and know very little about Windows ]
> >
> > I'm trying to build sqsh under Cygwin and I'm running into a problem
> > with decorate vs. non-decorated library symbols.
> >
> > Sybase uses the __stdcall calling convention for its libraries under
> > Windows, so gcc generates symbols like _ct_results@8.
> >
> > I've gone through the Cygwin docs on linking with Windows DLLs, and I've
> > generated three .def files and .a files using the following:
> >
> > cd $SYBASE/OCS-12_5/lib
> > for i in libblk libcs libct; do
> > echo "EXPORTS" >${i}.def
> > nm ${i}.lib | grep 'T _' | sed 's/.* T _//' >>${i}.def
> > dlltool --dllname ${i}.dll --def ${i}.def --output-lib ${i}.a
> > done
> >
> > This generates what looks like valid .a files, *but* they are all with
> > non-decorated symbols, and of course the link phase fails.
> >
> > Is there a way to direct the linker to match up the _ct_xxx@y symbols
> > with the corresponding _ct_xxx entries in the .a/.dll?
>
> Have you tried the ld flag '--enable-stdcall-fixup'?
Thanks, but a quick test doesn't appear to show any improvements. I'll
try some more permutations when I have more time.
Michael
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