[JJR]

A little bit of scrounging can turn up some useful items.

In my search for ways to simplify the export definition file creation process, I started investigating the MinGW compiler suite. Each compiler seems to have to deal with the problem in it's own way.

For those who are interested, take a look here:

Mingw Download Packages

If you scroll down a ways under "current", you will come to "w32api-3.1-src.tar.gz" which is the source for the mingw gcc windows specific includes and lib's. Since this is the src, instead of lib's, the lib directory contains -- guess what -- all the definition files (*.def) for the windows system dll files. The neat thing about this is that these def files include the critical @## symbol postfix for all the functions. All that would be necessary to convert these then would be to prepend an "_" and add the "=" followed by the base function symbols.

It's good to see, at least, that there's already a solid source for these dll export definitions if need be. This could be useful if one needed to replace outdated digitalmars libs.

- John

[jcc7]