Re: Generating OMF DLL implibs on Windows – reliable

[Kagamin]

David Nadlinger Wrote:

> Since I made some pretty negative experiences trying to get linking DLL 
> on Windows to work some years ago, I have always been using dynamic 
> loading (in the sense of looking up the symbol addresses at runtime) to 
> avoid any COFF/OMF-related problems. However, this obviously also has 
> its disadvantages, like not being able to link the libraries in question 
> statically on other operating systems.
> 
> Therefore, I'd like to know if the situation got better in the meantime, 
> i.e. whether there is a OMF DLL import library tool available by now 
> that Just Works, in the sense that you can just tell anybody who wants 
> to build your project on Windows to use it without feeling guilty?
> 
> Thanks,
> David

Had to use modern version of advapi32.lib from WinSDK, had no problem with coffimplib.