Compiling dll issue.

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On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 15:09:59 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:
> So i have been trying to follow the instructions on:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Win32_DLLs_in_D
>
> but when i get to the step where i compile the dll
>
> dmd -ofmydll.dll -L/IMPLIB mydll.d dll.d mydll.def
>
> I get this output:
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.15
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> OPTLINK : Error 180: No Match Found for Export/ENTRY -  : 
> DllGetClassObject
> OPTLINK : Error 180: No Match Found for Export/ENTRY -  : 
> DllCanUnloadNow
> OPTLINK : Error 180: No Match Found for Export/ENTRY -  : 
> DllRegisterServer
> OPTLINK : Error 180: No Match Found for Export/ENTRY -  : 
> DllUnregisterServer
> OPTLINK : Error 81: Cannot EXPORT : DllCanUnloadNow
> OPTLINK : Error 81: Cannot EXPORT : DllGetClassObject
> OPTLINK : Error 81: Cannot EXPORT : DllRegisterServer
> OPTLINK : Error 81: Cannot EXPORT : DllUnregisterServer
> --- errorlevel 8
>
> Not, very pretty. Do I have something not setup right? Im using 
> the latest DMD as of 8/25/2014. 2.066.0
>
> Any Ideas?

If you don't use the extern(C) foreign function interface then 
the name won't match to the export name as written in the source 
(in the binary you'll get the bytecount of all the param size 
with a @ before).
si you need to create a name table for optlink 
(http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/ctgDefFiles.html)
(http://www.digitalmars.com/archives/cplusplus/4029.html)