It seems to me that the documentation on how to
create dll's on windows are unnecessary complex.
A very simple test seems to show that the def
file isn't needed as long as the symbols use the
'export' attribute. Since it is much simpler to
export the functions where they are instead of
in a def-file, I don't understand why the doc's
don't reflect this.

Are there any pitifalls with 'export' compared to
using .def-files?

Lars Ivar Igesund

"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivi@stud.ntnu.no> wrote in message news:bmiu5s$24aa$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> It seems to me that the documentation on how to
> create dll's on windows are unnecessary complex.
> A very simple test seems to show that the def
> file isn't needed as long as the symbols use the
> 'export' attribute. Since it is much simpler to
> export the functions where they are instead of
> in a def-file, I don't understand why the doc's
> don't reflect this.
>
> Are there any pitifalls with 'export' compared to
> using .def-files?

I don't think there are. The two methods are equivalent.