Re: [Mingw-users] Linking with a dll - I'm stuck :(

[Kuba O. <ku...@ma...>]

On Sunday 15 February 2004 07:34 am, Heiko Gerdau wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:15, Luke Dunstan wrote:
> > I tried linking something by putting ftd2xx.lib directly on the command
> > line and it appeared to work (no errors) but examining the import table
> > shows that something is wrong and that it would cause an application to
> > crash. I'm not sure why the import library doesn't work with MinGW but
> > this *appears* to produce a correct executable:
> >
> > 1. reimp -d ftd2xx.lib
> > 2. Remove the underscore at the beginning of each line in ftd2xx.def
> > 3. dlltool -k -d ftd2xx.def -l libftd2xx.a
> > 4. Link normally using libftd2xx.a
>
> I would expect
>
>  dlltool -U -d ftd2xx.def -l libftd2xx.a
>
> to be necessary in step 3, but I did not try though.

I've tried seemingly all combinations and nothing had worked. I resorted to 
runtime resolution via QLibrary, it wasn't such a big effort.
Kuba