Re[2]: [Mingw-users] Documentation for dllwrap ??

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello Greg,

Greg Chicares <chi...@mi...> wrote:

GC> Yet on Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:31:18 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky
GC> <pa...@is...> wrote [in answer to a question about the
GC> continuing necessity of using dlltool for generating .def files]:

>> Yes, that's why dllwrap is depricated, but dlltool is not ;-)

GC> If dllwrap is deprecated, then wouldn't it be better for the FAQ
GC> to explain the alternative?

    Yes, of course. As soon as it will be proven to really not have
problems. As for FAQ, it's really big and become obsolete. Laura
Michaels did great work for collecting so much info, but FAQ should
be document which answers for not immediately obvious things for
newcomer, not something that overloads or misleads them. FAQ in that
form was required when there was no own Mingw site, so everything was
stuffed into single document. Now, we can factor out it into several
more useful and maintainable documents.

GC>  I think that's -shared, with dlltool
GC> maintained for generating .def files and import libraries--right?

    Dlltool will be deprecated, too ;-) The whole idea is to have dll
builing process as close as possible to normal unix .so, of course,
with ability to specify win32-pe peculiarities. Right now, ld I know
of one thing which ld cannot do and dlltool can: generate implib from
.def (as separate process, I mean). This is likely to be added.


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