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user640121
user640121

Reputation: 111

Creating a lib file from a visual studio project that is configured to generate a DLL

I have project that outputs a dll. Currently I have specified only a few functions to be exported. After compilation a dll file is generated and also a .lib file with the few exports that I had. I want to know if there is an easy way so that I can export all the classes to lib file. I cannot possibly add all statements for each class to .def file also I dont want to edit the code to change declaration of each method. Is there a visual studio setting that can tell the compiler to export all code.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 457

Answers (1)

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 941455

Use __declspec(dllexport) on the class declaration instead of using a .def file. Exporting everything doesn't make a lot of sense and is not supported. You pick what should be visible.

Upvotes: 1

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