Re: [Mingw-users] error with a function declared with dllimport, and used in a struct

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Brian Dessent wrote:

> You can also remove the dllimport attribute, and use the fact that the
> linker will automatically create a thunk for the function during
> linking.  The thunk is just a regular function in the .text section of
> the executable, so its address is constant and known at link time.  But
> there is an extra level of indirection, a minor performance hit;
> essentially doing this is exactly equivalent to:
>
> __declspec(dllimport) void my_fct (void);
> void my_fct_helper(void) { my_fct() };
> static const Toto toto = { my_fct_helper };
>
> ...except that the linker creates the thunk automatically for you.

With this helper function, it is indeed working. The problem is that the 
lib should also work on Linux, so I can't do everything I want (like 
removing the dllimport declaration)). But with some #ifdef, i can manage 
that.

thank you very much

Vincent Torri