DLL import and export on Windows

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page explains how to take care of DLL symbol export and import easily. This is required on Windows to reuse an extension or library into an other extension. For Linux or Mac developers, this is required if you want your extension to work on Windows, although you don’t need it if you restrict yourself to your own platform.

Introduction

A dynamic library (.dll, .so, .dylib, named DLL in the following explanation) contains C++ compiled functions which might be called by another program using this DLL at runtime. When programming, as a developer you may want to reuse some classes or functions already defined and compiled in a dynamic library, or, on the other hand, you would like to make some classes / functions available within a dynamic library (for other developments).

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DLL import and export on Windows

Introduction