The documentation is not current. Mingw can now link directly to a .dll. See the "direct linking to a dll" section here ... http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/gnu-linker/win32.html
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Andreas Pakulat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25.07.10 00:57:14, John Drescher wrote: >> > mingw can link using a .dll >> > >> >> I do not have much mingw experience but I have around 15 of windows >> and Visual Studio experience. With Visual Studio you absolutely do not >> link your application with .dlls. You use import libs with a .lib >> extension the same way you do with a static lib. This import lib is >> not a static lib however its much smaller. During the application load >> process .dlls linked using import libraries are automatically loaded. >> This is not the only way to use .dlls you can use them also without >> linking but there is much more work in that. > > Same goes for mingw, but it has a way of extracting the import library > from a .dll, see > http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/compilingDLLs/existingDLL.html > > Andreas > > -- > You are fairminded, just and loving. > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
