You can download the Platform SDK for free from Microsoft; it contains all
these tools and the compiler and libs as well, but obviously is enormous; it
has no IDE and you have to write NMAKE makefiles to use it (not that hard,
just annoyingly different).

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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John D. Ramsdell" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:3792] Re: Csound GNU build system lessons learned


> "Michael Gogins"  writes:
>
> > You can tell if a DLL contains export records if you run the
> > Microsoft utility DUMPBIN.EXE with the /EXPORTS option on the DLL.
>
> I searched my Windows 2000 installation for dumpbin, but no files
> matching that name were found.  May be one only gets this utility when
> a Microsoft IDE is installed.
>
> > If the Windows DLL does not contain export records...
>
> The reason I strongly suspect winmm has export records is a small test
> case I wrote links with a little DLL I generated with no linking
> problems.
>
> > Pardon me if you already know this, as I suspect you do, and I'm
> > missing the point of your question...
>
> Actually, this is the first I've heard of dumpbin.exe, so I'm glad you
> noted it.
>
> John
>