Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW - dll and exe linking problems - can'tlinkstdcall function without decoration

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Danny Smith <dan...@cl...>:

>>
>> FYI, linking directly to the DLL also works.  You don't need
>> an import
>> library.
>
> You do if the dll is exporting aliases.
>
> Quoting ld.info:
>
>     3. Symbol aliases can only be resolved using an import lib.  This
>     is critical when linking against OS-supplied dll's (eg, the win32
>     API) in which symbols are usually exported as undecorated aliases
>     of their stdcall-decorated assembly names.

Thanks for the correction Danny.

Earnie