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Re: Defining DLL entry points
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:36:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: Defining DLL entry points
- References: <25081386.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:54:14AM -0700, mavatar wrote:
>I am trying to port a DLL project from MSVC to Eclipse/MinGW. I was
>able to build the DLL with Eclipse/MinGW and the resulting shared
>library was much larger than the same library built with MSVC. I found
>a "MinGW C Linker" option in project properties to "Omit all symbol
>information (-s)" after setting this option the DLL file size reduce by
>almost 200KB, but it still was >100KB bigger then the MSVC version.
>
>After inspecting the DLL with the MS "Dependency Walker" utility I
>noticed that the DLL produced by MinGW has entry points defined for
>every function in the DLL, including those that don't have the
>following descriptor before them.
>
>#define MY_API __declspec(dllexport)
>
>I would expect that ONLY function that have MY_API before them would be
>defined as an entry point, but this is not the case all function are
>defined as entry points. How is this possible?
>
>As a side note I do not provide a *.DEF file to the linker. I tried
>this and it did not seem to make a difference.
>
>Any ideas?
Yes: http://mingw.org/
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