From what I gather, if you have a DLL to link, you can use implib to build a static library that will do the linking for you. My research suggests that everyone already has it, and may even come with Windows. But I don't seem to have it. Where do you get it.

I found coffimplib to do conversion on DigitalMars's tools along with documentation on using implib, but I don't see where you would actually get implib.

Jesse Phillips wrote:
>From what I gather, if you have a DLL to link, you can use implib to build a static library that will do the linking for you. My research suggests that everyone already has it, and may even come with Windows. But I don't seem to have it. Where do you get it.
>
>I found coffimplib to do conversion on DigitalMars's tools along with documentation on using implib, but I don't see where you would actually get implib.

On http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html there's a link to this file: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip

I think that's the implib you want?

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Johannes Pfau

Johannes Pfau Wrote:

> Jesse Phillips wrote:
> >From what I gather, if you have a DLL to link, you can use implib to build a static library that will do the linking for you. My research suggests that everyone already has it, and may even come with Windows. But I don't seem to have it. Where do you get it.
> >
> >I found coffimplib to do conversion on DigitalMars's tools along with documentation on using implib, but I don't see where you would actually get implib.
> 
> On http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html there's a link to this file: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip
> 
> I think that's the implib you want?
> 
> -- 
> Johannes Pfau
> 

Yes thank you.

On Friday, 4 November 2011 at 16:31:30 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> On http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html there's a link to this file: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip
>
> I think that's the implib you want?

I just tried implib with latest sqlite library def (windows x86) like this, and it crashed (however with the dll it seems to work just fine):

implib sqlite3.lib sqlite3.def