Re: [Mingw-users] Linker doesn't generated automatically import lib

[Dennis W. <den...@go...>]

2008/6/25 <Ale...@el...>:

> Hi list,
>
> I have got here a project. This project is written in different languages,
> mainly C, C++ and Ada.
> When I do a build of the project the linker generates for all exported
> functions automatically an import library for the dll. But this only happens
> if the module is written in C or C++. This doesn't happen with any Ada
> module, although I use pragma Export (C, ...).
>
> How can I avoid to write explicitly -Wl,--out-implib, to every Ada module?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Greetings
>
> Alexander Camek
>

I've been working on a similar problem recently, which seems to be an issue
whenever $LANG != C.
Try and have a look at MinGW's dlltool. If you feed it a .def file with
symbols to export, it can create an import library for you. You'll probably
find the gory details somewhere in the documentation; google also finds
useful things on that topic.

Cheers,
Dennis