From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T02:06:03+09:00
Subject: Re: extensions on Windows

Kloubakov, Yura wrote:
> You can use DUMPBIN to create a file which lists all exports of a DLL,
> reformat this file to .DEF-file using a text editor and then use LIB
> to create an import library from the .DEF-file.
> 
> Or
> 
> You can use IMPLIB utility from Digital Mars to build an import library
> from DLL (http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/implib.html)
> It is in the following package:   http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip

I over-summarized in my initial message. I was able to use a utility
called impdef, some hand-editing, and dlltool to make a .a that gcc
could like against. At runtime, however, it threw Error 126 or 127,
depending on the location of the DLL. I finally gave up, thinking that
it'd be easier to do it with One-Click Ruby and MSVC.

I'll give the .NET SDK download another hour or so :-(. As long as I'm
here to keep restarting it after the connection resets, it'll finish
eventually.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Steve