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From: | Roumen Petrov |
Subject: | Re: Windows DLLs from Unix with minimum effort |
Date: | Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:52:20 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071024 SeaMonkey/1.1.5 |
Jason Curl wrote:
Brian Dessent wrote:Thanks - all of my initial problems. My test code now compiles and links with the DLL. However, when I move the test program out into another folder and copy the DLL into the Windows System path, it doesn't execute. I haven't figured out how to run it without the "libtool" wrapper. When I observe the dependencies using Microsoft tools, I see there are none other than my library and MS libraries (e.g. Cygwin is not there).Jason Curl wrote:./configure CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--kill-at" --target=i586-pc-mingw32 --disable-staticon Cygwin to generate the Windows DLLTarget is not the right thing to use here. Target only has meaning in the context of building tools that themselves generate code, such as compilers, linkers, assemblers, etc. If you want to simply indicate that you are cross-compiling a library for a host different than the current one then you use --host. Also, if you're going to use Cygwin as a "Fake mingw" then you probably also should use --build=mingw as well.The library works correctly when I use say, Visual Basic 6.
Please, could you prepare sample test case. I cannot reproduce described issue.
I have also another subdirectory that tests the library but I can't link to it using mingw. First it doesn't recognise that the name was simplified (it looks for address@hidden for example instead of _my_func/my_func).You need to understand that the --kill-at is a linker option. It cannot change behavior of the compiler, and when gcc is told to use the stdcall calling convention for a function, it includes the normal stdcall decorations on the symbol. There is no way to change this AFAIK, unless you use __attribute__((alias)) or something.Ooh sounds horrible.I can probably live with that solution, I might look how to use export/import library definitions as it would also mean defining precisely the ordinals in the Windows DLLs. I'll take a deeper look at Erik's suggestion, it looks simple enough except I'm not entirely happy with the DEF file generation he uses.So if you want to use these symbols without the stdcall decoration, then you have to get the linker to jump throuh hoops. --kill-at removes them from names that are exported, but that still doesn't change the fact that the compiler emits calls to the decorated names. For that you will have to use --enable-stdcall-fixup, which will link calls to address@hidden to _foo if there is no address@hidden found anywhere. Or, you could create an import library and link with that. But instead of all of that I think I would just simply use --add-stdcall-alias. This should result in both a decorated and undecorated alias of each symbol being exported, so you don't have to try to pretend that gcc isn't emitting calls to decorated names when it really is.
You could pass "def" file to the linker as example: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/xmlsec/trunk/configure.in?r1=982&r2=983 Roumen
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