Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32

[Guido Draheim]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Oh, that's news to me. So, one can take the _linker_ to produce a
> > def file which contains the --dynamic-export-symbols? How is that?
> > I've looked into dlltool -z too long, it seems...
> >
> > (and btw, _how_ recent that my be? ye know, these things happen to
> >  be unresolved for years now....)
>
>
> Here's an example for the mingw-users archives.
>
> g++ -shared -Wl,--output-def,lib/example.def
> -Wl,--out-implib,lib/libexample
> .dll.a -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -o example.dll
> example.o -lpng12 -ltiff -lz -ljpeg -lungif -lgdi32

which simply means that Olofson should stop looking
into dlltool, right!? That's because the work would
only be useful for setups with an older gcc/binutils
pair. And the real work should be done in libtool.m4
to be able to detect the newest format and implant
calls as those above. Is the format above the final
call-scheme? (or still under change?)