Re: linking problem in DPAPI

["bubble" <bubble@riskm.com.tw>]

a good news.
my guess is wrong.
ld seem can direct linking to a dll...
2nd url,Jerrrey provid.
It said...

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direct linking to a dll
The cygwin/mingw ports of ld support the direct linking, including data 
symbols, to a dll without the usage of any import libraries. This is much 
faster and uses much less memory than does the traditional import library 
method, expecially when linking large libraries or applications. When ld 
creates an import lib, each function or variable exported from the dll is 
stored in its own bfd, even though a single bfd could contain many exports. 
The overhead involved in storing, loading, and processing so many bfd's is 
quite large, and explains the tremendous time, memory, and storage needed to 
link against particularly large or complex libraries when using import libs.

Linking directly to a dll uses no extra command-line switches other than -L 
and -l, because ld already searches for a number of names to match each 
library. All that is needed from the developer's perspective is an 
understanding of this search, in order to force ld to select the dll instead 
of an import library.

For instance, when ld is called with the argument -lxxx it will attempt to 
find, in the first directory of its search path,

libxxx.dll.a
xxx.dll.a
libxxx.a
cygxxx.dll (*)
libxxx.dll
xxx.dll



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after some error.
I have a solution.

I copy crypt32.dll from c:\windows\system32 to project home.
and change pragma  (not use Stdcall Calling Convention ).
pragma Import (C, CryptProtectData, "CryptProtectData");
then it work..

I have new question..
in windows SDK document ,the WINAPI declare should mapping to Stdcall.
It's mean who's responsibility to clean stack frame.
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/win32-callconv.html
if I use "C" calling conventions in a "WINAPI" funciton , colud system clean 
stack twice and cause some problems?



> Well, I meant the dll tools that come with GNAT. Read the user guide.
> It's been a while since I had to do this.