Create DLL with .a linking library

[evstevemd]

Hi,
I need to create DLL with .a library for Linking. I load dynamically. Should I create another project?
AFAIK, creating DLL should produce .a (.lib) automatically but in my case I see only .dll.
am I missing something here?

[eranif]

Not really a codelite issue. but more of mingw issue.

You need to create a def file and list there all the symbols that you wish to export, and then run the dlltool.exe tool on it to create the import library

To automate the process, I suggest that you use a post build action similar to:

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dlltool.exe -d MyDll.def -l $(IntermediateDirectory)/libMyDll.a

(assuming that your DLL is created under the $(IntermediateDirectory) directory, which is the case by default)

Read this excellent explanation about dlltool and import library:

http://oldwiki.mingw.org/index.php/Crea ... tLibraries

Eran

[evstevemd]

Big thanks, Sir!

[evstevemd]

What about Linux?
I mostly develop in Linux now days!
I am searching for dlltool alternative for Linux

[josee]

You do not need such a thing.
Linux automatically exports all global variables if you do not say otherwise.
The linking is done against lib<dllname>.so.

[evstevemd]

Thanks Josee,
I wonder why always things in M$ are complicated

[frank_frl]

Thanks Josee,
I wonder why always things in M$ are complicated

This is my experience for years with MS, seems to be their philosophy.
'Why make things easy when we can make them so nice complicated'

Frank

[evstevemd]

That's cool!