Thanks Pavel. That did the trick. Thanks
On Mar 5, 1:14 pm, Pavel Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > About 2: I was just faced with the same problem in another project on > my job. And it turned out that Visual Studio doesn't create *.lib file > if there's no functions declared with __declspec(dllexport) or > mentioned in *.def file in the project. Nothing to export from dll - > no *.lib required. ;-) > You can check if this is the case for you with depends.exe. > > Pavel > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM, eager_learner > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello folks building Chrome on Visual Studio 2008 or 2005. > > > I have been trying to integrate a third-party library into chrome to > > develop and test a plugin. Just like all plugins, this will be built > > as a dll which should summoned for designated content-type. > > > I have read in many postings that the NPAPI like external API to > > develop plugins will be available in May so I decided to get on with > > work and implement this as an internal plugin by hacking my way > > through plugin_list.cc and the Glue.vcproject. > > > When I navigate to my test site with content-type, the plugin does get > > invoked. However all this code is added to the glue.vcproject. I have > > the code for the thirdparty library that I made a dll project. Here is > > where the problem starts > > > 1. Glue.vcproject builds a static library (.lib) which calls functions > > from my third-party project which is built as a DLL. Is this plain > > wrong? Can a static library make calls to a dynamic library? > > > 2. I was able to build Glue.vcproject when I added my third-party > > project as project dependency to Glue.vcproject. However, chrome_dll > > which links to Glue.lib did not link complaining about unresolved > > references. It was looking for <my project>.lib. But magically, <my > > project>.vcproj only builds the dll no accompanying .lib. I have tried > > turning on and off various vcProject options... In the build output, I > > clearly see /DYNAMICBASE:NO /FIXED:No /IMPLIB being used. > > > I am clueless and would like to know and can share my windows > > messenger id so that someone can take a look at the vcproject to find > > out what could be going wrong. > > > Sincerely --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
