Re: [Mingw-users] Convert MingW DLL (.dll, .a, .def) file to MSVC DLL and .LIB (import lib)

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

On Saturday, August 25, 2012, sasuke wrote:

>
> If DLL creation for MSVC works, it is a win-win situation for me
> since I now have DLL's which can work with both MingW and MSVC compilers.
>
> So, what have I tried? I have:
>
> * Created DLL using mingw along with .a and .def files
> * I created a simple executable project for testing my DLL/LIB files
> * I tried to compile the C++ project using MSVC and passing in the .DEF
> file
> created in previous step as input. It fails with linker errors saying
> "Undefined symbol" which basically means it has problems with my .DEF file
> * I tried to create a .LIB file out of the .DEF file using `lib
> /machine:i386 /def:testdll.def` as mentioned in the link
> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs but still no luck. Linking
> against this .LIB file in my executable project still throws up "undefined
> symbol" errors which again means that I'm missing something.
>
> Simply put, is there a clean cut way of creating a MSVC comptatible DLL/LIB
> file out of the .DLL/.DEF/.A files which I just created out of MingW?
> Thanks
> again.


http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MixingCompilers

 Earnie


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