Re: DLLs with MinGW

[Ignacio Castaño <castanyo@...>]

marcus.cf wrote:
> I didn't know MSYS, and Cygwin was too big. Thanks for
> the tip.
> Anyway, the standard makefiles don't have a target "dll"
> (it's not much different from "so", but it's not the
> same)

To build the dlls you will need a rule like this:

dll:
DLLWRAP --output-def lib/liblua.def --implib lib/liblua.dll.a src/*.o
$(DLLWRAP_OPTS) -o bin/lua-$V.dll
DLLWRAP --output-def lib/liblualib.def --implib lib/liblualib.dll.a
src/lib/*.o $(DLLWRAP_OPTS) -L$(LIB) -llua.dll -o bin/lualib-$V.dll

where DLLWRAP and DLLWRAP_OPTS are:

DLLWRAP=dllwrap.exe
DLLWRAP_OPTS= --no-export-all-symbols --add-stdcall-alias

you also have define LUA_API as '__declspec(dllexport)'

The loadmodule library does that, and also add support for loadable binary
modules:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaryModules
http://talika.eii.us.es/~titan/lua/lua-5.0-loadmodule-2002-12-18.patch

Hope that helps,


Ignacio Castaño
castanyo@yahoo.es