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RE: --add-stdcall-alias equivalent for Visual-C++ ?
Robert Pendell wrote on 19 June 2008 21:10:
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> Jim Kleckner wrote:
>> Jim Kleckner wrote:
>>> An off-topic request:
>>>
>>> The --add-stdcall-alias argument to ld exports symbols as both
>>> "decorated" (with leading _ and trailing @nn) and "undecorated".
>>>
>>> Anyone know of the easiest way to get VC++ to do this?
>>> Yes, a manual exports .def file can be created (or semi-automated).
>>>
>>> But it is so nice that ld does this which is needed for Excel or other
>>> DLL-consuming Windoze programs.
>>>
>>
>> FYI, after searching and trying lots of hacks, I came up with
>> including a "pragma comment" as the easiest way to manage
>> this requirement. Microsoft doesn't appear to want to make
>> this easy the way gcc/ld does.
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> #pragma comment(linker, "/EXPORT:func1=_func1@4")
>>
>>
>
> Why am I thinking this is off-topic even for the talk list? This is a
> cygwin list. Not VC++. *whistles*
</hands Robert a hippo>
Go on. You know what to do.
cheers,
DaveK
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