[Mingw-users] How to create a relocatable dll with mingw

[Srinivas C. <va...@ya...>]

Hi,

We are running into issues trying to load dll's into a program that has been compiled with Visual Studio. We invariably get the "Invalid access to memory location" error while trying to load the dll. It appears that the dll created using mingw gcc-4.2.1 is not relocatable. btw, we are using MSVCR90 and not MSVCRT and this shows up on Windows XP but not Windows 7. 

Followed the instructions mentioned from this article:
http://mirrors.zoreil.com/webclub.kcom.ne.jp/ma/colinp/win32/dll/make.html

gcc -mdll -o junk.tmp -Wl,--base-file,base.tmp bar.o
del junk.tmp
dlltool --dllname bar.dll --base-file base.tmp --output-exp temp.exp --def
bar.def
del base.tmp
gcc -mdll -o bar.dll bar.o -Wl,temp.exp
del temp.exp

This did not help us either. 

Would appreciate any suggestions that helps resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Vasu