mavatar <acampbellb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying to port a DLL project from MSVC to Eclipse/MinGW. I was able to > build the DLL with Eclipse/MinGW and the resulting shared library was much > larger than the same library built with MSVC. I found a "MinGW C Linker" > option in project properties to "Omit all symbol information (-s)" after > setting this option the DLL file size reduce by almost 200KB, but it still > was >100KB bigger then the MSVC version. > > After inspecting the DLL with the MS "Dependency Walker" utility I noticed > that the DLL produced by MinGW has entry points defined for every function > in the DLL, including those that don't have the following descriptor before > them. > > #define MY_API __declspec(dllexport) > > I would expect that ONLY function that have MY_API before them would be > defined as an entry point, but this is not the case all function are defined > as entry points. How is this possible? > > As a side note I do not provide a *.DEF file to the linker. I tried this and > it did not seem to make a difference. > > Any ideas? I don't know the answer to this question. I do know that this is not an issue with gcc proper. You are much more likely to get an answer if you ask on the cygwin@xxxxxxxxxx mailing list (because this is Windows related) or the binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list (because this is linker related). Ian
