generaing LIB file from DLL

Hi!

i wrote a DLL in delphi, now, how can i generate a .LIB file from that DLL to be able to use that DLL's export functions from a vc++ application (i want the lib file to compile it with my project).

i've tried:
LIB /def:mydll.dll

but it doesn't work, it generates a LIB file, but not in the right format.
the functions names, aren't there, it also throws warning messages, about it
doesn't understand the MZ mark of the DLL (???)

i also tried IMPLIB from Borland C, but the format of the lib file is different
from the one microsoft uses.

how can i solve this? i have the delphi source code for the DLL, can i tell
delphi to generate the LIB file automatically?

help please, thank you.

You used the wrong parameters for the LIB program.
Since you seem to have access to the Borland tools, I would do the following:

Using Borland's IMPDEF.EXE program

IMPDEF MyDLL.DEF MyDLL.DLL

This creates a .DEF file for you. Now you use the LIB command from Microsoft to generate the import library from the .DEF file:

LIB /DEF:MyDLL.DEF

This creates the import library given the .DEF file.

There is a way to create a .DEF file with the Microsoft DUMPBIN program, but a lot of the steps requires editing a new .DEF file "by hand". This is where the Borland IMPDEF program becomes a time-saver.

I haven't done this in a while, but this should work.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie