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Re: Solution: Exporting symbols from an executable
- To: venkat at comit dot com
- Subject: Re: Solution: Exporting symbols from an executable
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:15:11 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <14823.16955.691000.133858@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
> The main thing I was missing is that you HAVE to create a .exp file.
> Since most other dlltool functionality is subsumed by ld, I wonder why
> this isn't. Or if there's some option that I couldn't figure out.
Setting up the exports is only done when building a dll (--shared). I
don't see why it couldn't be enabled for all cases, but usually exe's
don't need one.
> My biggest concern is that I skipped the base file creation (from the
> five step process). Things still seem to work. Does it matter?
No. The base file is only used if you want to build a *relocatable*
image, but executables are never relocated (for 9x/NT at least).
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