[Mingw-users] Re: Generic DLL questions

[Stefan B. <sb...@sb...>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> B) The .exe uses LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress to load and access
> the .dll (such as in the case of a plugin that can be dynamically
> added/removed as necessary) and the .dll links directly against the
> .exe without using GetProcAddress.  This is just the converse of the
> above, except that now creating the .exe does not depend on the .dll
> existing at all.

> gcc main.o -o main.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libmain.a
> gcc -shared foo.o -o foo.dll -lmain

Are you sure this works like you describe it? The man page of "ld" says
that --out-implib only works when linking a DLL (i.e. -shared). And in
fact, the version of gcc that I have here seems to agree: --out-implib
is simply ignored when linking an executable.

-- 
Stefan Bellon