Solution: Exporting symbols from an executable

[DJ Delorie]

> The main thing I was missing is that you HAVE to create a .exp file.
> Since most other dlltool functionality is subsumed by ld, I wonder why
> this isn't.  Or if there's some option that I couldn't figure out.

Setting up the exports is only done when building a dll (--shared).  I
don't see why it couldn't be enabled for all cases, but usually exe's
don't need one.

> My biggest concern is that I skipped the base file creation (from the
> five step process).  Things still seem to work.  Does it matter?

No.  The base file is only used if you want to build a *relocatable*
image, but executables are never relocated (for 9x/NT at least).

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