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Vineel Kumar Reddy
Vineel Kumar Reddy

Reputation: 4726

Creating .dll and .lib files with the VC++ command line

How can I create .lib files and .dll files in VC++ with cl.exe from the command line?

Upvotes: 35

Views: 34076

Answers (2)

Alex Budovski
Alex Budovski

Reputation: 18456

Re making a DLL, these are shorthand form(s) if you have the source files:

cl /LD foo.c bar.c baz.c /FeMyImage.dll

or 

cl /LD foo.c bar.c baz.c /link /out:MyImage.dll

are equivalent.

Upvotes: 14

CB Bailey
CB Bailey

Reputation: 793037

Visual Studio comes with a library tool called LIB.EXE which can be used to create library files from object files. If you set up the command line so that you have CL.EXE on the path, you should also be able to run LIB.EXE.

E.g.

LIB.EXE /OUT:MYLIB.LIB FILE1.OBJ FILE2.OBJ

To create a dll, you just use LINK.EXE (as for executables) but with the /DLL switch.

E.g.

LINK.EXE /DLL /OUT:MYLIB.DLL FILE3.OBJ FILE4.OBJ

Upvotes: 56

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