.exp file

[Eric Smith]

Is the .exp file that VC creates when compiling a DLL important in any way?

[ALM]

I don't think so. I'm not exactly sure what it contains but it seems like a temporary file used by the linker to generate the import library. I always delete it when I'm doing disk clean-up -- no problems.

Alvaro

[Eric Smith]

Oh. That was strange. I just finished asking a question about VxDs and had imagined you were running about deleting Vxd files and experiencing no ill effects.

I see it was the .exp file.

Thanks.