Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Using gendef and dlltool… Reopening the pandora.

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 5/14/2012 19:40, MARTIN Pierre wrote:
> Dear Kai, JonY, Ozkan and list readers,
> 
> As suggested by list users, i have filled a bug report right here:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3526537&group_id=202880&atid=983354
> If you think it's not clear enough, i would like your feedback about
> what i could possibly detail about, or the terminology i shall use.
> 
> @JonY and Kai:
>>> This (In my opinion) proves that delay-loaded import libraries are
>>> maybe the problem here, and i really would like you to help me
>>> to pinpoint what could be the bug, if you have any other manipulation
>>> i can make to advance.
>> This is a bug in dlltool. In my investigations, delay loaded symbols
>> seem to be linked to the 0x6 address.
> Ok, then shall i fill a bug report in dlltool bugtracker as well? i have been
> searching for this specific error in the bugtracker here:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=102435&group_id=2435&func=browse
> but didn't find anything about it. But 1) i'm not sure the search terms
> i used (i tried "dlltool", "--output-delaylib" and "0x6" / "0x06") were
> the one required to find an existing bug and 2) i'm not sure if the
> dlltool version i'm using ((rubenvb-4.5.3) 2.22.52.20120429) is
> specific to MinGW-w64 (And Ruben's build) or just to MinGW.
> Could you please advise me into the next step i shall take?
> 

Go ahead and make a bug report, thanks. Dlltool for mingw and mingw-w64
are really the same, I don't think Ruben does any patching for binutils.

> @JonY:
>> Yes, this indicates that there might be a calling-convention issue.
>> static functions in classes have btw normally __cdecl
>> calling-convention (as long as not explicit marked having stdcall),
>> and class-member-functions, which aren't variadic, have for 4.7 gcc
>> (or newer) __thiscall calling-convention.
> Related to these facts, i have a question. If i use DepsWalker against
> the DLL, will it be wrong too, or can i use it to diagnose the differences?

That was Kai, anyway dependency walker does not show the ABI, only
symbol names. It's great for demangling MSVC C++ symbols though.