MSVC 2008 - creating import library

Hi there,

I'm not familiar with Microsoft Visual Tools, I want to create an import library in COFF format (so GCC can use it). For OMF there is implib which works perfectly. I want to create .lib from d3dx81ab.dll and am using the following .bat file:

Code:

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"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\dumpbin.exe" /EXPORTS:d3dx81ab.dll
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\lib.exe" /DEF:d3dx81ab.def
pause

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The output is:

Code:

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D:\Programming\DirectX81\lib>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bi
n\dumpbin.exe" /EXPORTS d3dx81ab.dll

D:\Programming\DirectX81\lib>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bi
n\lib.exe" /DEF d3dx81ab.def

D:\Programming\DirectX81\lib>pause
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No output is generated and no files are created. There is no error information. The .bat file is in the same directory with d3dx81ab.dll, I also checked /WINDOWS/system32 for possible output.
I'm following this:
How To Create 32-bit Import Libraries Without .OBJs or Source

I also tried writing .DEF files with the necessary functions by hand and use lib.exe only, but nothing has happened either.
I tried: /EXPORTS:d3dx81ab.dll and /EXPORTS:<space>d3dx81ab.dll

Has anyone Microsoft Visual 2003? I've heard there is omf2coff which would be useful, I know its not redistributable, but I'd be very grateful if someone sent it to me.

Any ideas?
Thanks

>> I want to create an import library in COFF format (so GCC can use it).
You should be using GCC tools to create an import library for GCC.
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/CreateImportLibraries

Have you considered using the DirectX libs and headers that come with MinGW? TDM's version has D3D9 headers and libs: http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

Apparently, MinGW worked directly with the DirectXSDK: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/directx/mingw3d.aspx (issues reported in the comments).

Visual Studio Express is another option.

gg

Thanks, that worked! Actually GCC has no problems with DirectX libraries and links fine with them, but there was one in old DirectX 8 - d3dx8.lib (d3dx81ab.dll) which caused some problems.

d3dx81ab.dll seems to be a Delphi wrapper DLL (part of Jedi) - and not a MS DLL.
http://clootie.ru/delphi/download_dx81.html

gg