I'm working on a wrapper to a C dll and I think that I'll need to create a .lib file eventually to connect my D code to the C library.

I've experimented with this a little, including using ipmlib to create the lib, which creates a lib but not one that works right (I think it mangles the names wrong.)  However, the excellent linkdef tool works to create a good .def which allows implib to create a proper lib.

Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code and get a proper .lib from that?

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:27:30 -0400, Chris Andrews wrote:

> I'm working on a wrapper to a C dll and I think that I'll need to create a .lib file eventually to connect my D code to the C library.
> 
> I've experimented with this a little, including using ipmlib to create the lib, which creates a lib but not one that works right (I think it mangles the names wrong.)  However, the excellent linkdef tool works to create a good .def which allows implib to create a proper lib.
> 
> Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code and get a proper .lib from that?

Use coffimplib on your regular .lib file:

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

Get it at ftp.digitalmars.com.

I'm advertising coffimplib so much that I probably need a badge already, "Want to create an import library? Ask me how!"

Chris Andrews schrieb:
> Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code and get a proper .lib from that?

If you have source code, you can of course compile a static library.

dmc -c *.c
lib -c libname.lib *.obj