On Monday 26 May 2025 11:49:04 Martin Storsjö wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2025, LIU Hao wrote: > > > > Yeah, I agree. That was also the original reason for why we started > > > merging them originally; we had lib32, lib64 and libarm32, and > > > wanted to add libarm64. (Also, at the time I didn't have the real OS > > > yet to even dump the DLLs, so it would have been a copy of libarm32 > > > anyway.) > > > > > > A lot of the differences we have stem from the fact that lib32, > > > lib64 and libarm32, before starting unification, had been dumped > > > from quite different windows versions. > > > > The idea about generating DEFs from DLLs is doubleplusungood > > It has some drawbacks, yes. > > But it also allows calling functions that aren't exposed in the official > SDKs. We rely on this for ucrtbase.dll and > api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll.
Also on msvcrt.dll. > > and is exactly the reason why we have unwanted symbols, like > > `DllRegisterServer`, `DllCanUnloadNow`, `DllGetClassObject`, and some > > which I removed a few days ago in > > 9c1dcbf0c6a990cabbad0d915110c601f1d32184, and some more which Jacek > > removed in 99d13399bf5fa6e19c3c445b62fff751f3dbf997. > > Yes, those are problematic and should indeed be excluded. > > There has been numerous other cleanups for other unwanted things among the > def files, stemming from dumping them from def files - see e.g. > 8cd2f47a240f721feeefe199c759f9069e491077, > f379f49cb4a2ac255728280b7f2a56cb754b917d, > 11154847e17c3232ba0eba22d9aba196b2bcc006, > 363d07f9c498e1a641d3cde45d64af1551c0189c, > a6027b9e1649fd498af88808cd99d3e38a739f34. > > // Martin Also these cleanups are important: e0a38b59e92dc7fd568c983a20d71ecf71688aa9 5a28a0560c350f9563e072eb55929b417c86bb53 We can teach gendef to "comment" DllRegisterServer, DllUnregisterServer, DllCanUnloadNow, DllGetClassObject, DllEntryPoint and DllMain symbols. Maybe there are even more symbols which should not be in the import library. _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
