I have a .dll file supplied to me by a third party that I need to link against to resolve function references in my main program. I am using a version of Visual Studio Fortran and do not have the ability to load from the dll at run time using functiuons like LoadLibrary or GetProcAddress.
My understanding of the linking process in the VStudio 6 IDE is that it needs a .lib file to be able to incorporate the code within a .dll into the application. The 3rd party creator of the .dll did not give me the .lib file associated with it. Web searches told me that I can create a .def file that has the lines:
EXPORT
FunctionName1
FunctionName2
and then run the lib command:
lib /def:ok_dll.def /out:ok_dll.lib
I do this and it winds up creating a .lib file but I do not understnad how the existence of this fill will be in anyway connected to the .dll I know has the executable code in it?
When I specify the new .lib file as input to the linker in VStudio 6 I still get unresolved references...
Has anyone ever done this before? It seems like I am missing something very simple...thanks
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You can detect the names of the exported functions. You can use DependencyWalker.
Or just Depends from the Windows SDK. It should be also here:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools
But I don't get your idea with the Library Manager.
take a look:
How to create .lib file when you only have .dll and .h files
http://www.codeprojec
In
http://www.binary-sof
I've never used this tool - no need in C/C++.
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by: IbanUlovPosted on 2009-11-06 at 16:43:27ID: 25764383
1)Your best option is to ask for the .lib to the third party...
2)there is a thing you can do, you can create another library in c++ and load this dll(without .lib) with loadlibraryex and and export functions that call to the dll(without .lib). So you can link with the new library and access to the dll(without .lib) functions. Like an interface.