I need to build an import library that's DMD-compatible for d3d8.lib and dxguid.lib and other various DirectX dll's.

Sean

Has anyone here ever looked for documentation on making import libraries for system DLL's?  The information is Just Not Out There!!!

It used to exist back when Windows 95 came out.  Now I can't find it anymore.

This sucks.  I hate undocumented command line tools.

Sean

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu357$1h8m$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I need to build an import library that's DMD-compatible for d3d8.lib and dxguid.lib and other various DirectX dll's.
>
> Sean

Well it thinks the ones for Visual C++ 6 (included with DirectX 8 distribution) are invalid library files.

Anyone have any clue here?  I'm stuck.

Sean

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu7ac$1lg9$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Has anyone here ever looked for documentation on making import libraries
for
> system DLL's?  The information is Just Not Out There!!!
>
> It used to exist back when Windows 95 came out.  Now I can't find it anymore.
>
> This sucks.  I hate undocumented command line tools.
>
> Sean
>
> "Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu357$1h8m$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > I need to build an import library that's DMD-compatible for d3d8.lib and dxguid.lib and other various DirectX dll's.
> >
> > Sean

Well I found this page on the Digital Mars site:

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

But I can't find the tools anywhere.  They're not part of the DMC++ distribution.

Ok, after digging thoroughly on ftp.digitalmars.com, I finally found coff2omf.zip and that did the trick.  I now have valid libraries for d3d8, d3dx8, d3dx8d, dsound, dinput8, dxguid.

But one last problem has surfaced:

C:\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(com)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _IID_IUnknown

The GUID for IUnknown is not found.  Anyone know where to find it?

Sean

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu7ac$1lg9$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Has anyone here ever looked for documentation on making import libraries
for
> system DLL's?  The information is Just Not Out There!!!
>
> It used to exist back when Windows 95 came out.  Now I can't find it anymore.
>
> This sucks.  I hate undocumented command line tools.
>
> Sean
>
> "Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu357$1h8m$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > I need to build an import library that's DMD-compatible for d3d8.lib and dxguid.lib and other various DirectX dll's.
> >
> > Sean

Nevermind, found it in uuid.lib.

Sean

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu7ac$1lg9$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Has anyone here ever looked for documentation on making import libraries
for
> system DLL's?  The information is Just Not Out There!!!
>
> It used to exist back when Windows 95 came out.  Now I can't find it anymore.
>
> This sucks.  I hate undocumented command line tools.
>
> Sean
>
> "Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:adu357$1h8m$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > I need to build an import library that's DMD-compatible for d3d8.lib and dxguid.lib and other various DirectX dll's.
> >
> > Sean
>
>
>