Re: [Mingw-users] Some questions on __imp_ prefix, and other linking problems

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2011-03-28 05:18Z, John Brown wrote:
> 
> I gave you wrong / incomplete information. Using stdcall causes the @n to be
> added to function names. __declspec(import), which tells the compiler that the
> function is imported from a DLL, is what adds the __imp_ prefix.

I see __imp_ symbols in code that I've linked directly to a dll,
with no __declspec decorations used anywhere, so I guess direct
linking generates them, too.

> See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132044 for more information.

Also see:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/07/27/679634.aspx