Aha, that explains the general problem, many thanks. I think I had a .a file lying around earlier, not thinking it mattered, and that's probably the reason that it worked once at random.

What I really want to do is to work with a third-party DLL for which I have a dll.h header file and an Exports.def file. I don't have a static version.

If there's a way to turn this information into a static simplelib.a, then I'm happy to do it. But I can't recompile the third-party DLL. I tried doing what it says at the bottom of https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html (dlltool), getting a libsimple.a. I can link standalone.o against this, and even run it, but I get zero output, so something is wrong.

Please excuse the basic questions (remember, g++ and Cygwin on Windows):

How exactly do I turn simplelib.dll into a proper libsimple.a?

How do I link against it stand-alone? I assume ... standalone.o -o standalone -L. -lsimple

How do I tie libsimple.a and glue.o (the XS .o) together into a proper DLL that is self-contained and can be moved around and loaded by DynaLoader?

I'm not against MakeMaker, but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted, and it's so big and intransparent that I decided to try to understand the actual steps first.

In reply to Re^2: XS with DLL by soren.hein
in thread XS with DLL by soren.hein

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