system dlls + implib

Jason King via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 24 06:05:45 PDT 2014


I just (with Rikki Catermolle's kind help) worked out a problem 
who's genesis was an old version of oleaut32.lib in the dmd 
directories.  I wound up "creating" the missing entry via 
coffimplib and the windows sdk.  Were I less hard-headed that 
would have stopped me in my tracks.
If we can include newer windows system libs with DMD I'll be 
happy to generate them.  If copyrights prevent distributing new 
libs but we can distribute the defs (so then all that's necessary 
is implib + the original system dll) I can do that, too.
My preferred solution would be to take all the "system" libs in 
%D_HOME%\dmd2\windows\lib and replace them with the output of 
coffimplib vs. the corresponding libs in the Windows 8.1 SDK.
2nd solution (if first fails a copyright issue) would be to 
create those same def files so that then a person with windows 
and implib can fix the problem w/o the SDK.


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