Re: Using dlls

On 20 Jul 2005 21:34:14 GMT, Ian Johnston
<NOianSPAM.NOgroupsSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>: > gcc -o test.exe test.c -l \langs\libs\gdlib2033\bin\gDdll.dll
>: >
>: > I get a "cannot find file" error for gDdll.dll
>: >
>: > I am probably doing something very stupid indeed, but if someone could
>: > gently tell me what it is I'd be very grateful!
>:
>: You need to create either a .DEF or a .LIB file from the .DLL using EMXIMP.
>
> Thanks. Can you recommend a book or website which would tell me this
> stuff? (Subtext: and stop me making a fool of myself here...)

Afraid not. GCC has no real usable documentation that I can see (on OS/2 at
least). I know from reading the VAC++ docs. that IMPLIB would do this, but
I had to take an educated guess what the utility was called in GCC, and then
actually try it.
.

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