Re: [Mingw-users] How do I create a DLL with a shared data segment?

[Gisle V. <gv...@br...>]

"Thomas Boutell" <bo...@bo...> said:
 
> dllwrap --output-lib=libkbhook.a --dllname=kbhook.dll --driver-name=gcc kbhook.o vk.o
> d:\mingw\bin\dllwrap.exe: no export definition file provided.
> Creating one, but that may not be what you want
> 
> Now, when I start up an application linked to the DLL via the stub library
> kbhook.a, I get this at startup:
> 
>   The application or DLL d:\wxWindows_2.4.0\projects\mything\kbhook.dll is
>   not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation
>   diskette.

My experience is that you need to run "strip kbhook.dll".
dllwrap sometimes seems to put an illegal debug section in 
the PE-header. Or link using 
  gcc -shared -Wl,--out-implib,libkbhook.a -o kbhook.dll ...

--gv