[Openal-devel] Revisit Cygwin/OpenAL/OpenAL32 and Simgear Compile

[Brian Keener]

Sven Panne wrote:
> I think that dlltool (coming with Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS) can do this, 
> too. The problem is that there are no rules generated by 
> automake/libtool to generate and use the .def file. Can the .def file 
> really be generated automatically and if yes, how? We use 
> __declspec(dllexport), which is a complementary mechanism, IIRC. So all 
> the necessary information is there, but I've never seen gcc generate a 
> .def file...

Not sure if this is what you are asking but I just did a man dlltool in Cygwin 
and according to the manual pages dlltool has the ability to create the .def 
file.

bk