[Mingw-users] compiling a dll where the symbols are only defined at runtime

[Carl <car...@gm...>]

hi, i am a linux user, but i have interested in one of my projects
from the windows community, and now im trying to port everything to
windows.
in a nutshell, my project consists of a core program, and a bunch of
plugins, compiled as shared objects. Now under linux i compile the
core with the -rdynamic flag (im not even sure if this is neccesary)
and when i open the .so with dlopen all the symbols inside the core
program required by the .so are resolved. Im wondering if i can do the
same thing under windows, because when i try to compile the .dll i get
a list of every single core function as an linker error: undefined
symbol blah. So the only work around ive come up with so far is to
compile every single object into each of the plugins, making them each
5mb big, which is more or less unacceptable for my purposes. is there
a way to achieve the same effect that i do under linux, or am i going
to have to hack around this by compiling most of the core into a dll
and have each of the plugins and the core link to that.