Re: [Mingw-users] Newdevlib missing ??

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kuba Ober" <ku...@ma...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Newdevlib missing ??


> On Friday 30 April 2004 11:43 am, kir...@wi... wrote:
> > I still wonder how?
> > I did a nm on newdev.dll and it has no symbols. (all symbols are
> > stripped)
> > So how can the linker be able to fix the address ?
>
> That's not the way to check it. AFAIK nm is not designed to be used on
dll's.
> It works on object files (.o files).
>
> > Can you please give me the command line to link with the newdev dll
> > file?
>
> Simply put the .dll itself as an argument in the final link stage
> I.e. either
> ld ...... path/newdev.dll
> or
> gcc/g++ ....... -o executable ....... path/newdev.dll
>
> Cheers, Kuba Ober

The function is stdcall so this probably won't work because the linker will
be looking for _UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices@20 while the DLL exports
UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices.

Luke