Re: [Mingw-users] ldd for MinGW

[NightStrike <nig...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Zeno Davatz <zd...@gm...> wrote:
> Dear Tor
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tm...@ik...> wrote:
>>> Is there any information for getting ldd into MinGW so that the user
>>> can list the symbols of a shared library.
>>
>> ldd is specific to some Unix platorms using ELF. The way Windows DLLs
>> work is quite different, even if superficially also shared libraries.
>> Of course there are lots of tools to see what symbols are exported
>> from a DLL. As a user of the MinGW toolchain, try objdump or pexports.
>
> Thank you, I am trying that now.
>
> Do you have any hints how I should proceed if I need to link a nmake
> compiled file against a MinGW compiled file?
>
> I need to resolve a bunch of
>
> _imp__*
>
> errors that my MinGW make outputs. The software compiles fine but
> linkage between nmake compiled DLL and the MinGW compiled Lib does not
> work.
>
> Earnie said I need a .a file but how do I create that from a nmake
> compiled file?
>
> I did read this: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs
>
> Thank you for your Feedback.
>
> Best
> Zeno

You can run gendef against a dll to generate a .def that goes through
dlltool to generate a .a import lib to use the dll.  That was a
mouthful :)