Re: dll problems in VC++

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From: Tim Roberts (timr_at_probo.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:55:47 -0800

Severian <severian@chlamydia-is-not-a-flower.com> wrote:
>
>Q: I know it is possible to create a .lib file for an .exe file.

No, it is not. You can make a .lib file INSTEAD of a .exe, by adding all
of the object files to the library instead.

>Is it possible to link that .lib with the DLL and access any exported
>functions?

Not once the DLL has been linked. If you have access to the object files
for the DLL before they were linked, then there are all kinds of options,
but I don't think that is the original scenario. 

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc

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