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#!/bin/sh

# This is a2dll 1.0
# (c)1999-2000 Paul Sokolovsky
# a2dll is distrubuted under GNU General Public License, see http://www.gnu.org


usage() {
        echo 'a2dll 1.0: convert static library into win32 dll'
        echo '  by <Paul.Sokolovsky@technologist.com>'
	echo 'Usage: a2dll <staticlib> [-o <dllname>] [linker commands:-L,-l,-s] [--relink]'
	exit 0
}


cmdline=$@

while test $# -ge 1
do
case "$1" in
    -\? | -h* | --h*) usage;;
    -o ) out="$2"; shift; shift;;
    --relink) relink=1; shift;;
    -* ) libs="$libs $1"; shift;;
    *) in=$1; shift;;
    esac
done

if [ "$in" = "" ]
then
	usage
fi

base=`basename $in .a`

if [ "$out" = "" ]
then
        out=`awk -v n=$base 'BEGIN {print substr(n,4); exit;}'`.dll
fi

if [ "$relink" != "1" ]
then
	rm -f .dll/*
	/usr/bin/mkdir -p .dll
	cd .dll
	ar x ../$in
else
	cd .dll
fi

echo Creating shared library \'$out\'

dllwrap --export-all -o ../$out `ls` $libs >../ld.err 2>&1

cd ..
if [ `wc ld.err|awk ' {print $1}' ` -gt 2 ]
then
	echo Linking error, consult file \'ld.err\', correct errors, and run
        echo \'$0 $cmdline --relink\'
        exit 1
else
# cleanup

        rm -f ld.err
	rm -f .dll/*
	/usr/bin/rmdir .dll

# create .def
# we use pexports on dll instead of dlltool on objects for this,
# because it's:
# 1. faster
# 2. I just saw that dlltool lies about assembly-sourced files, it
#    lists their symbols as data 

        pexports $out >$base.def

# create import library

	mv $in $in.static
        dlltool --dllname $out --def $base.def --output-lib $in

# finally, we check whether dll exports data symbols
# if yes, we suggest user on steps to perform

        pexports $out | awk '/DATA/ { print $1}' >$out.data
	if test -s $out.data
        then
                echo
        	echo Shared library exports data symbols, they are listed \
in \'$out.data\'. For using them in client application, you should mark \
them as __declspec\(dllimport\) in library headers. You can quickly \
find places where these data symbols declared by issuing
                echo
		echo "	grep -f $out.data *.h"
                echo
                echo in library header directory. Also note that this step is optional, you can postpone \
it until you\'ll get during linking unresolved symbol _imp__\<something\>, where \
\<something\> is one of the symbols listed in $out.data. Read documentation \
\(static2dll_howto.txt\) for more information.
        else
        	rm $out.data
        fi
        rm $base.def
fi
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