• Andre Pany (10/10) Nov 03 2019 Hi,
• kinke (13/16) Nov 03 2019 I haven't tried it, but llvm-dlltool seems to be what you are
• Andre Pany (5/21) Nov 03 2019 Thanks a lot. I will try it. If it works well this tool could be
• Andre Pany (11/36) Nov 13 2019 I had the chance to test the tool llvm-dlltool.exe and it works
• kinke (3/5) Nov 14 2019 Or in

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

Hi,

Is there a similar tool like MS dumpbin available to generate DLL 
static import libraries?
DMD contains implib, but this works only with OMF. For COFF there 
is MS dumpbin. But installing the whole Build Tools for just that 
little tool seems odd.

I saw there are different llvm tools available but I am not sure 
what their purpose are and how they work.

Kind regards
Andre

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 10:35:00 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 I saw there are different llvm tools available but I am not 
 sure what their purpose are and how they work.

I haven't tried it, but llvm-dlltool seems to be what you are 
looking for:

 llvm-dlltool.exe --help

OVERVIEW: llvm-dlltool

USAGE: llvm-dlltool [options] file...

OPTIONS:
   -D <value> Specify the input DLL Name
   -d <value> Input .def File
   -f <value> Assembler Flags
   -k         Kill  n Symbol from export
   -l <value> Generate an import lib
   -m <value> Set target machine
   -S <value> Assembler

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 14:23:36 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 10:35:00 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 I saw there are different llvm tools available but I am not 
 sure what their purpose are and how they work.

 I haven't tried it, but llvm-dlltool seems to be what you are 
 looking for:

 llvm-dlltool.exe --help

 OVERVIEW: llvm-dlltool

 USAGE: llvm-dlltool [options] file...

 OPTIONS:
   -D <value> Specify the input DLL Name
   -d <value> Input .def File
   -f <value> Assembler Flags
   -k         Kill  n Symbol from export
   -l <value> Generate an import lib
   -m <value> Set target machine
   -S <value> Assembler

Thanks a lot. I will try it. If it works well this tool could be 
included into ldc and dmd as replacement for implib.

Kind regards
Andre

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 14:37:57 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 14:23:36 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 10:35:00 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 I saw there are different llvm tools available but I am not 
 sure what their purpose are and how they work.

 I haven't tried it, but llvm-dlltool seems to be what you are 
 looking for:

 llvm-dlltool.exe --help

 OVERVIEW: llvm-dlltool

 USAGE: llvm-dlltool [options] file...

 OPTIONS:
   -D <value> Specify the input DLL Name
   -d <value> Input .def File
   -f <value> Assembler Flags
   -k         Kill  n Symbol from export
   -l <value> Generate an import lib
   -m <value> Set target machine
   -S <value> Assembler

 Thanks a lot. I will try it. If it works well this tool could 
 be included into ldc and dmd as replacement for implib.

 Kind regards
 Andre

I had the chance to test the tool llvm-dlltool.exe and it works 
like a charme.
You can find the executable in the tar archive here: 
https://msys2.duckdns.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm?repo=mingw64

To create e.g. the import x86-64 import library for sqlite you 
can use this command:
llvm-dlltool.exe -D sqlite3.dll -d sqlite3.def -l sqlite3.lib -m 
i386:x86-64

Kind regards
André

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 19:54:32 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 You can find the executable in the tar archive here: 
 https://msys2.duckdns.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm?repo=mingw64

Or in 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/llvm/releases/download/ldc-v9.0.0/llvm-9
0.0-windows-x64.7z, which is a 76 MB download vs. the 264 MB of the MinGW-w64
package.