• Chris Andrews <CodexArcanum gmail.com> Mar 19 2009
• Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly gmail.com> Mar 19 2009
• Trass3r <mrmocool gmx.de> Mar 19 2009

Chris Andrews <CodexArcanum gmail.com> writes:

I'm working on a wrapper to a C dll and I think that I'll need to create a .lib
file eventually to connect my D code to the C library.  

I've experimented with this a little, including using ipmlib to create the lib,
which creates a lib but not one that works right (I think it mangles the names
wrong.)  However, the excellent linkdef tool works to create a good .def which
allows implib to create a proper lib.

Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use
linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm
wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code
and get a proper .lib from that?

Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly gmail.com> writes:

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:27:30 -0400, Chris Andrews wrote:

 I'm working on a wrapper to a C dll and I think that I'll need to create a
.lib file eventually to connect my D code to the C library.  
 
 I've experimented with this a little, including using ipmlib to create the
lib, which creates a lib but not one that works right (I think it mangles the
names wrong.)  However, the excellent linkdef tool works to create a good .def
which allows implib to create a proper lib.
 
 Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use
linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm
wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code
and get a proper .lib from that?


Use coffimplib on your regular .lib file:

http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coffimplib.html

Get it at ftp.digitalmars.com.

I'm advertising coffimplib so much that I probably need a badge already,
"Want to create an import library? Ask me how!"

Trass3r <mrmocool gmx.de> writes:

Chris Andrews schrieb:
 Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use
linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm
wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code
and get a proper .lib from that?


If you have source code, you can of course compile a static library.

dmc -c *.c
lib -c libname.lib *.obj