Re: [Tinycc-devel] Re: TCC:cannot find -l"xyz.dll"

[lostgallifreyan]

grischka <address@hidden> wrote:
(02/04/2009 13:05)

>
>lostgallifreyan wrote:
>> Extra point:
>> Actual TCC error is given literally as "tcc: cannot find -lLua.dll"
>
>Actually there is the "hello_dll" example that you should try
>first to see how linking with a DLL works.
>
>===
>
>To clarify:
>
>TCC (like most other compiler on windows except GCC) cannot link
>DLL's directly.  With TinyCC you need a .def file created with
>the tiny_impdef tool or (if your're using current GIT/CVS version
>of TCC) created automatically together with the dll by tcc.exe.
>
>You then link with foo.def
>1) either using "tcc -lfoo ..." (that is if foo.def is in tcc/lib
>or in a location that you specify using the -L<libdir> option)
>2) or using "tcc foo.def ...", that is the plain full name of the
>.def file.
>

Link what with it? I'm a newcomer to this, I can't learn from incomplete 
command lines. I tried this anyway, I built a Lua DLL by using all its C files 
except Lua.c/Luac.c/Print.c which seemed to be what was required, as I inferred 
from INSTALL (text file supplied with Lua v5.1.4 source). TCC built a DLL but 
no .def file. I did think of this though, as I said, I tried tiny_impdef.exe on 
the DLL to get the .def file but it doesn't get one.

I looked for other words on compiling Lua even though I'd managed to do it 
already. I found this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=W9QKpJJCHmIC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=lua.dll+tcc&source=bl&ots=-uxa8Ew5pv&sig=mnjzrRG676Y5krhWBX-2Qux6uDE&hl=en&ei=XRrVSduHE-CQjAe7spnwDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5
which decribes changing some code ina  header file, but I didn't need to do 
this. What it does not decribe is making a DLL of Lua and the EXE that must 
link to it. I found descriptions for other compilers but not for TCC.

If you can give me a complete step by step method that works, I can learn from 
it, but I doubt I can learn anything meaningful from parts I cannot find any 
record of having been assembled into a working whole.


>In short: It works the same with ".def" as with libraries ".a".
>

I made a ".a" file too, tried that as well, it didn't work. I need to see a 
complete example of how to build Lua.dll and Lua.exe with TCC in Windows. I 
can't do this by Googling and guessing.

>And yes, it should work to compile lua with TCC, also when built
>as DLL.
>
>===
>
>As to GDI and other windows specific questions as others have already
>pointed out, it is best to refer to what MS has to say about directly.
>
>Tip:
>
>There is the entire Win32-API in a single .hlp file available on the
>LCC-WIN32 site:
>
>http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/
>ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/lcc-win32/win32hlp.exe
>
>(It was also available on the borland site, once).
>
>It is for Win95 actually, but if you configure your editor that F1
>pops up that help file for the keyword under the cursor then you
>have a very convenient setup to go for almost everything you'll
>maybe ever want to do with Windows.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>--- grischka
>
>
>
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