RE: [Mingw-users] Re: Generic DLL questions

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

> > 1) you can create an import library for the foo.exe using a foo.def
> > file like this:
[snip]
> > Then link the DLL with libfoo.a.

>Ok, I see. However, this doesn't work if the foo.exe itself depends on
>the DLL. So, circular dependencies are impossible, correct?

I don't know.

> > 2) Look up the symbol at runtime. Read up on GetProcAddress() and
> > GetModuleHandle().
>
>And how would I link the DLL itself using this second approach?
>

Use your normal command line to generate the DLL. In the DLL, you will use 
the function pointer returned by GetProcAddress to call the functions that 
live in foo.exe.