questions about DLL's: .a, .def, and .dll

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Oliver wrote:
>
> > Hi folks, I'm confused about the files that dllwrap
> > creates. On Unix (where I've been programming forever) all you
> > have to do is create a .so shared library. But dllwrap ends up
> > creating a .a file, a .def file, and a .dll file, yet I can
> > build a program that links to, e.g., mylib.dll, with only "-L. -lmylib",
> > *wihtout* having the .def or .a available. So where and when are the .a and
> > .def files needed?
>
> The newer versions of gcc apparently allow you to link directly to a .dll
                           ^/binutils
> file.  The .def and .a are needed for older versions of gcc, and possibly
                                                             ^/binutils
> for some other tools.
> [snip]
> 	Igor

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