Hi.
I'm trying to compile file "test.c" with gcc 8.1 on Windows. The file
contains following code:
__declspec( dllimport ) void foo(void);
__declspec( dllexport ) void bar(void)
{
foo();
}
The compilation step works fine:
C:\test>gcc -m64 -c test.c -o test.o
The linking step fails:
C:\test>gcc -m64 -shared -o Test.dll test.o
test.o:test.c:(.text+0xb): undefined reference to `__imp_foo'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Similar code on Linux works fine and generates a shared library with
undefined symbol "foo". That is what I want to do on Windows too.
The goal is to create an application that uses Test.dll and also another
shared library FooLib.dll which _does_ define the "foo()" function - i.e.
at the dynamic linking step during process creation the symbol _will_ be
available.
I would prefer to _not_ add library FooLib to the linking step of Test.dll
due circular dependencies.
How can this be solved?
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regards
Rastislav Stanik
