Re: dlpreopen bug with cygwin

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Tuesday 05 June 2001  3:35 pm, Robert Collins wrote:
> dlpreopen generates a list of symbols - say
>
> extern char _imp__free;
> <skip>
> extern char nothing;
> extern char printf;
> extern char realloc;
>
> from the source library - cyghello-2.dll
>
> "nothing" here should be extern __declspec(dllimport) char nothing;
> "_imp__free" shouldn't be present, because the actual symbol is in a
> different library. Or if it is present it should also be extern
> __declspec(dllimprt)...
>
> I'm not quite sure how to approach this, but my tentative logic is:
>
> if the library we are reading symbols from is a .dll, throw away __imp__
> symbols, and make all normal appearing symbols __declspec(dllimport).
>
> Is this likely to introduce any headaches ? Am I heading up the wrong
> tree?

That sounds like the right solution to me.  As ever, the proof of the pudding 
is in the eating =)O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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