Re: [Openexr-devel] createDLL trouble

[Bo Zhou]

On 2010/5/6 8:24, Moritz Moeller wrote:
> G'day.
>
> I've just trying to compile IlmBase on Windows 7 x64 under VS2005.
> All the VS solutions failed during link time for me with a module vs
> link target platform config conflict.
> I later found out this was due to createDLL.exe adding a /MACHINE:x86
> flag to the link.exe invoke. :)
>
> As it happens I hate VS and actually most IDEs with every fiber of my
> body. :) So after hitting above wall, initially, in VS, I just rewrote
> the whole build system of IlmBase for CMake.
> It works a treat as far as compiling goes (tested on Linux, OSX &
> Windows with "NMake Makefiles" target).
>
> Now linking IlmBase on Windows, as far as I understand, is handled with
> a combination of the M$ linker and a tool called 'createDLL.exe' which
> exports global symbols from a .dll and creates the matching export .lib
> (aka: does away with the need for all that C-wrapper rubbish on
> windows). Sounds bloody awesome.
> All I had to do was to patch createDLL.cpp so it adds the /MACHINE:X64
> flag to the linker, on request.
>
> Now for the problem: when createDLL runs link.exe with the response file
> this creates the .lib successfully but /deletes/ my .dll (instead of
> overwriting it, as the comment in createDLL.cpp says would happen).
>
> As a result I also get all symbols listed as undefined (i.e. they are in
> the .lib but the linker errors as the .dll is now missing).
> This is no problem while building IlmBase -- the linker only needs the
> .lib to create the resp. .dll for the next target.
> However, at the end, I'm left with a successfull build but no .dlls as
> they all get deleted, one by one, by createDLL's spawning of link.exe. :o
>
> So thats is where I'm stuck: how to get link.exe ran from createDLL to
> not delete the .dll.
>
> I must be missing something pretty obvious here?
>
>
> Beers,
>
> Moritz
>
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Hello,

Maybe here is a good reference
    http://hebbut.net/Public.Offerings/OpenEXR.html
about how to compile a Windows x64 version of OpenEXR.