[Mingw-users] lesson: don't have a dll and a lib in the same library path

[Brandon Sneed <brandon@xxxxxxx>]

This is just to document this in case anyone else runs into it...

I had to make a library (.a) from a vendor DLL.  I copied the DLL to a  
temp directory, created a def for it in the same directory and used  
dlltool to create a library from said DLL.  i think tried to compile  
and link with that library and LD generated errors for every function  
in the DLL basically saying it couldn't find _SomeFunc@n x300 or so  
imports.

After 4 days of fighting with it, searching google (maybe with the  
wrong search terms) etc. on a lark, i deleted the DLL and wala, it all  
linked fine.

So.. if this is you (person reading the archives), delete that DLL!!!

I had previously thought that while linking to DLL's was possible, it  
required command line parameters other than "-l<library>".



Brandon Sneed

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