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0005020CMakeCMakepublic2007-05-11 15:272016-06-10 14:30
ReporterJesus Lopez 
Assigned ToBill Hoffman 
PrioritylowSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
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Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0005020: DEF files in MinGW
DescriptionI'm trying to use a hand made .DEF file (with aliases) to link a
certain DLL with MinGW. I tried this way but with no success:

    project(kaka)
    add_library(kk SHARED kk.c kk.def)

The generated Makefile didn't pass the DEF file to the linking stage.
I would like to see this implemented.

The way to do this by hand would be:
gcc -o kk.dll -shared kk.o kk.def

While other generators use the DEF file, MinGW's simply ignore it.

Thank U!
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-01-16 09:58MaddesNote Added: 0024729
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotNote Added: 0041357
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotStatusassigned => resolved
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-06-10 14:30Kitware RobotStatusresolved => closed

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(0024729)
Maddes   
2011-01-16 09:58   
I can confirm this behaviour with CMake 2.8.3.

The reason is that CMAKE_LINK_DEF_FILE_FLAG is ignored, unless explicitly set to empty.
I assume CMake ignores it as it has still its empty default value, but this is the correct value for GNUC/CC on Windows.

I use the following code as a workaround:
# GCC specialities
if(${CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC})
    if(${WIN32})
        set(CMAKE_LINK_DEF_FILE_FLAG "") # CMake workaround (2.8.3)
        set(CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX "") # DLLs do not have a "lib" prefix
        set(CMAKE_IMPORT_LIBRARY_PREFIX "") # same for DLL import libs
    endif()
endif()
(0041357)
Kitware Robot   
2016-06-10 14:27   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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