Generate import lib to be used in MSVC++

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3 total messages Started by Tarek Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:14

Author: Tarek
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:14

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Hi experts...

I have developed a dll in BCB6.  I need to release import libraries for both
BCB6 and MSVC++.  Obviously, the import library for BCB6 was created for me
when I built the dll.  How can I generate the import library for MSVC++?

Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
Tarek E.

Re: Generate import lib to be used in MSVC++

Author: Ed Mulroy
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:48

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You cannot generate an import library for MSVC++ with Borland tools.  You 
must use Microsoft tools to do that.

What you can do is to create a module definition file with Borland's tools 
and give that to them.  They then add the module definition file to their 
build in a manner quite similar to how they would have added an import 
library.  If they don't like that then they can use their tools to create an 
import library from either of the module definition file or from the DLL.

  impdef  -a  DllName.DEF  DllName.DLL

The '-a' option above says to alter any 'cdecl' style export names from 
their common form, the form specified for almost all compilers, Microsoft 
included, to the different form that Microsoft adopted much later.  It might 
be useful to have a version created without the '-a' placed somewhere on 
your distribution disk for them to use in the case that their MSVC++ version 
is older.

.  Ed

> Tarek wrote in message
> news:42bc3021$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi experts...
>
> I have developed a dll in BCB6.  I need to release import
> libraries for both BCB6 and MSVC++.  Obviously, the import
> library for BCB6 was created for me when I built the dll.  How
> can I generate the import library for MSVC++?

Re: Generate import lib to be used in MSVC++

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:18

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"Tarek" <elgohary@tpr.com> wrote in message
news:42bc3021$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I have developed a dll in BCB6.  I need to release import libraries
> for both BCB6 and MSVC++.  Obviously, the import library for
> BCB6 was created for me when I built the dll.  How can I
> generate the import library for MSVC++?

    Creating DLLs in BCB that can be used from Visual C++
    http://web.archive.org/web/20031207213941/bcbdev.com/articles/bcbdll.htm


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