Re: Lots of symbols in comctl32 are exported by ordinal only

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earnie Boyd" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MinGW-patches] Lots of symbols in comctl32 are exported by
ordinal only


> Filip Navara wrote:
> >>But the NONAME tag has no significant effect on the import lib -- the
> >>symbol names are still in the imp lib, just hidden in the dll itself.
> >>Run-time linking
> >> doesn't use the import lib, so why should it affect that?
> >
> >
> > The comctl32.dll exports some symbols by ordinal only and when you link
with
> > current version of libcomctl32.a, it will search for eg. symbol
DPA_Create,
> > which isn't present in the DLL and fail.
> >
>
> So it does, confirmed on my XP with perdr (perdr.sf.net).  But how can
> we be assured that oridinal x on XP is the same oridinal x on 98?

It haven't changed from the Windows 95 version up to Windows Server 2003, so
I think it's safe. And Microsoft libs contain these symbols also and import
them by ordinal too.

Filip



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