[Soc-2007-dev] Friday Status Report

[joe]

On 6/30/07, Aaron Moore <two.a.ron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This week I:
>   1. created a final design of the basic render api and got feedback
> from bf-committers.
>   2. installed linux, and got blender compiling. This was because I
> cannot figure out how to compile .dlls with callbacks in them on
> windows/mingw. The __declspec(dllexport) is set and it still will not
> link.

If your being bitten by the
cannot-reference-functions-in-an-executable problem, take a look
at the plugin api code in source/blender/blenpluginapi, especially externdef.h.

Now to actually compile the .dll, you need to create an import
library.  To do that, you first create .DEF that's of the form

LIBRARY
EXPORTS
name_of_a_function
name_of_another_function

Then you create an import lib from this with the dllname =
blender.exe.  On mingw this would be like:

dlltool --input-def file.def --output-lib libimportlib.a --dllname blender.exe

Joe