Anyone know what is going wrong?

C:\devel\pdos\src>type aaa.def
EXPORTS
fred=mary

C:\devel\pdos\src>lib /def:aaa.def /out:aaa.lib
Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

LINK : warning LNK4068: /MACHINE not specified; defaulting to X86
Creating library aaa.lib and object aaa.exp

C:\devel\pdos\src>strings aaa.lib | grep -i fred
__imp__fred
_fred
__imp__fred
_fred
_fred

C:\devel\pdos\src>strings aaa.lib | grep -i mary

C:\devel\pdos\src>


I'm expecting to see "mary" somewhere.


C:\devel\pdos\src>lib
Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 9.00.21022.08

C:\devel\pdos\src>where lib
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\lib.exe


I've checked the documentation and as far as I can
tell, I'm doing everything by the book.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/building-an-import-library-and-export-file?view=msvc-160

Thanks. Paul.



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I have bypassed this problem for now, by simply using
the kernel32.lib that comes with Visual Studio.

I'm not sure how useful it is, but you can now write a
C90 application using Microsoft's Visual Studio as the
compiler, but PDPCLIB as the C runtime library, so that
the resulting executable (only about 17k for a hello
world) is only dependent on the documented kernel32.dll:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpclib/makefile.msw

One source file is necessarily in assembler, so you need
masm for that, and instructions for obtaining that can
be found here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/readme.txt

The resulting executable should work on every version of
Windows since Win 95, but I only tested on Win 10.

The executable has also been tested on Freedos+HX and
PDOS/386 and works fine.

BFN. Paul.

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