--add-stdcall-alias equivalent for Visual-C++ ?

--add-stdcall-alias equivalent for Visual-C++ ?

[Jim Kleckner]

An off-topic request:

The --add-stdcall-alias argument to ld exports symbols as both 
"decorated" (with leading _ and trailing @nn) and "undecorated".

Anyone know of the easiest way to get VC++ to do this?
Yes, a manual exports .def file can be created (or semi-automated).

But it is so nice that ld does this which is needed for Excel or other 
DLL-consuming Windoze programs.

Re: --add-stdcall-alias equivalent for Visual-C++ ?

[Jim Kleckner]

Jim Kleckner wrote:
> An off-topic request:
>
> The --add-stdcall-alias argument to ld exports symbols as both 
> "decorated" (with leading _ and trailing @nn) and "undecorated".
>
> Anyone know of the easiest way to get VC++ to do this?
> Yes, a manual exports .def file can be created (or semi-automated).
>
> But it is so nice that ld does this which is needed for Excel or other 
> DLL-consuming Windoze programs.
>

FYI, after searching and trying lots of hacks, I came up with
including a "pragma comment" as the easiest way to manage
this requirement.  Microsoft doesn't appear to want to make
this easy the way gcc/ld does.

Something like:

#pragma comment(linker, "/EXPORT:func1=_func1@4")

Re: --add-stdcall-alias equivalent for Visual-C++ ?

[Robert Pendell]

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Jim Kleckner wrote:
| Jim Kleckner wrote:
|> An off-topic request:
|>
|> The --add-stdcall-alias argument to ld exports symbols as both
|> "decorated" (with leading _ and trailing @nn) and "undecorated".
|>
|> Anyone know of the easiest way to get VC++ to do this?
|> Yes, a manual exports .def file can be created (or semi-automated).
|>
|> But it is so nice that ld does this which is needed for Excel or other
|> DLL-consuming Windoze programs.
|>
|
| FYI, after searching and trying lots of hacks, I came up with
| including a "pragma comment" as the easiest way to manage
| this requirement.  Microsoft doesn't appear to want to make
| this easy the way gcc/ld does.
|
| Something like:
|
| #pragma comment(linker, "/EXPORT:func1=_func1@4")
|
|

Why am I thinking this is off-topic even for the talk list?  This is a
cygwin list.  Not VC++.  *whistles*

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RE: --add-stdcall-alias equivalent for Visual-C++ ?

[Dave Korn]

Robert Pendell wrote on 19 June 2008 21:10:

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> Jim Kleckner wrote:
>> Jim Kleckner wrote:
>>> An off-topic request:
>>> 
>>> The --add-stdcall-alias argument to ld exports symbols as both
>>> "decorated" (with leading _ and trailing @nn) and "undecorated".
>>> 
>>> Anyone know of the easiest way to get VC++ to do this?
>>> Yes, a manual exports .def file can be created (or semi-automated).
>>> 
>>> But it is so nice that ld does this which is needed for Excel or other
>>> DLL-consuming Windoze programs.
>>> 
>> 
>> FYI, after searching and trying lots of hacks, I came up with
>> including a "pragma comment" as the easiest way to manage
>> this requirement.  Microsoft doesn't appear to want to make
>> this easy the way gcc/ld does.
>> 
>> Something like:
>> 
>> #pragma comment(linker, "/EXPORT:func1=_func1@4")
>> 
>> 
> 
> Why am I thinking this is off-topic even for the talk list?  This is a
> cygwin list.  Not VC++.  *whistles*

</hands Robert a hippo>

  Go on.  You know what to do.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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