6 `reimp' is a tool to convert Microsoft's new-style (short) import
7 libraries to import libraries for win32 ports of GNU tools (mingw32,
10 `reimp' reads an MS import library and writes all imports to the
11 corresponding .DEF file(s) that it feeds to `dlltool' that creates the
17 Usage: reimp [options] IMPLIB
20 -s, --dump-symbols dump symbols to stdout
21 -d, --only-def only create .def files
22 -c, --keep-case keep case in lib*.a file names
23 --dlltool <name> use <name> for dlltool
24 --as <name> use <name> for assembler
26 The `--dump-symbols' option makes `reimp' use a quick method for
27 finding imported symbols and sending the names of found symbols to
28 stdout. If the input library contain non-imported symbols they will be
29 listed as well. The output symbols will have all decoration preserved
30 (i.e '_' will prefix most symbols), so if you feed it to dlltool you
31 should strip leading underscores. For example
33 echo EXPORTS > imp.def
34 reimp imp.lib | sed 's/_//' >> imp.def
35 dlltool -k --def imp.def --output-lib libimp.a --dllname imp.dll
37 The `--only-def' option makes `reimp' stop after generating the .DEF
40 By default `reimp' converts all output library names to lower-case. By
41 using the `keep-case' option `reimp' will use exactly the case of the
42 DLL imported from when creating an import library. KERNEL32.dll will
43 generate libKERNEL32.a and not libkernel32.a as it would be default.
46 * Notes on mixed libraries
48 If an input library contain regular objects (non-imports, i.e code and
49 data) `reimp' will write out those objects unless you specify one of
50 the `--only-def' and `--dump-symbols' options. You probably want to
51 include those objects as well in the generated library. `reimp'
52 doesn't do that automatically so you have to do it manually using
55 reimp imp.lib # this generates several .o or .obj files.
56 ar rcs libimp.a *.obj # add them to library
61 URL: http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/
62 Anders Norlander <anorland@hem2.passagen.se>