• CounterPillow (12/14) Nov 16 2013 Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n
• Jeremy DeHaan (10/24) Nov 19 2013 If you compiled it using mingw-w64, then you are out of luck in
• Kagamin (2/2) Jun 22 2014 Aren't .def files compiled with dlltool?

"CounterPillow" <lolno fratti.ch> writes:

Hello there.

I'm trying to run implib on a mingw-w64 DLL/.def, both fail.

implib ncursesw.lib ncursesw.def

Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 2000.  All Rights Reserved.
Error(e): Error ncursesw.def(9): error number 80, token: COLORS

(it always fails on the same line, no matter what the content)

Using the DLL instead:

implib ncursesw.lib ncursesw.dll

Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 2000.  All Rights Reserved.
Error(9): Corrupt NT DLL (too short for export table)

The DLL should be a valid DLL.

Is it impossible to use implib on MinGW-compiled DLLs?

"Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 17:07:53 UTC, CounterPillow 
wrote:
 Hello there.

 I'm trying to run implib on a mingw-w64 DLL/.def, both fail.

implib ncursesw.lib ncursesw.def

 Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 2000.  All Rights Reserved.
 Error(e): Error ncursesw.def(9): error number 80, token: COLORS

 (it always fails on the same line, no matter what the content)

 Using the DLL instead:

implib ncursesw.lib ncursesw.dll

 Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 2000.  All Rights Reserved.
 Error(9): Corrupt NT DLL (too short for export table)

 The DLL should be a valid DLL.

 Is it impossible to use implib on MinGW-compiled DLLs?

If you compiled it using mingw-w64, then you are out of luck in 
using implib. implib is for creating import libraries for 32 bit 
dll's. Now, assuming you are wanting to make an import library 
for usage in DMD64, you can use 
gendef(http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/gendef) to 
create the correct .def file, and then use VS's lib.exe to create 
the import library from the .def 
file(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/0b9xe492%28v=vs.120%29.aspx)

"Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:

Aren't .def files compiled with dlltool?
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.24/binutils/dlltool.html