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

[Danny Smith]

 --- David Olofson <address@hidden> wrote: > On Wednesday 18
September 2002 12:29, Danny Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > > > A gotcha with this is that some exported names in dll are aliases,
> > > > the prime culprit being stdcall names.
> > >
> > > Uh oh. Why would that be an issue with ld, if it isn't with
> > > impgen.c...?
> >
> > It is an issue with impgen. Try:
> > % impgen c:/winnt/system32/user32.dll
> >
> > All the names should have stdcall decoration, but don't.
> 
> Ok... Is that information at all available in a DLL, 

No.

or does that mean we 
> either have to make assumptions, or just *require* import libs to be 
> present?

The latter is certainly safer.  You also need to consider DATA symbols, and the
special tricks required to import data, particularly  arrays and structs, using
--enable-auto--import.   The extensions to --enable-auto-import for  arrays and
structs (Egor Duda's work ) require both binutils support (a modified linker
script, for a start) and runtime support (in the pipe for cygwin, not for
mingw)

Danny

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