Zac Corbet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This might seem like a very newbie question, and that is because it
> is. I just started using MinGW and have never really worked with DLLs
> much either prior to this. I have searched the archive and the FAQ
> and documentation for help on this issue and haven't found anything to
> solve my problem. So if the answer is out there somewhere, I just
> missed it, so please be patient. So here is my problem:
>
> I am taking a program someone wrote in Linux w/ GCC and trying to put
> it into a program/system for Windows. This is what I was told to do,
> don't ask me why they would want to do it. Well, I got MinGW
> installed so that I could compile the program properly in Windows.
> Now the next step is writing the wrappers to allow this program to
> interact with the larger system.
>
> My problem is that the API I was given is in DLLs and the only thing
> that I have received are the DLLs. No LIB or DEF files or anything
> else, just the DLLs. So, in order to get it to work with MinGW code,
> it is my understanding that I need to get the lib file out of it. So
> checking the FAQs on the MinGW site, I tried using pexports to get a
> def file out of it. The problem is, the def file comes out empty.
>
> $ pexports -v FRAMES2_DataSet.dll
> ; .text: RVA: 00001000, File offset: 00001000
> ; .rdata: RVA: 0000a000, File offset: 0000a000
> ; .data: RVA: 0000c000, File offset: 0000c000
> ; .reloc: RVA: 0000e000, File offset: 0000d000
>
> This lead me to try the program called DUMPBIN and got the following:
>
> Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 7.10.2240.8
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
>
> Dump of file FRAMES2_DataSet.dll
>
> File Type: DLL
>
> Summary
>
> 2000 .data
> 2000 .rdata
> 1000 .reloc
> 9000 .text
>
>
> But, when I ran DUMPBIN checking for the IMPORTS instead of EXPORTS, I
> got a full list of functions matching what I should have in this
> library based on the documentation of the API. Maybe I am just being
> rather stupid about DLLs in general, since I don't really know much
> about them at all, but this is confusing me. Given just a DLL, how
> can I go about using it in a MinGW program to create wrappers? I hope
> someone can help me figure out my problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Zac Corbet
>
>
>
> ====================================
> Zac Corbet
> devIS - Development InfoStructure
> http://www.devis.com <http://www.devis.com/>
>
> "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts
> agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer
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>
Have you tried linking against the dll's directly?
e.g. "gcc -o myapp.exe myobjects.o -lsomedll.dll"
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