1------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2--                                                                          --
3--                         GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS                         --
4--                                                                          --
5--                                 M D L L                                  --
6--                                                                          --
7--                                 S p e c                                  --
8--                                                                          --
9--          Copyright (C) 1992-2008, Free Software Foundation, Inc.         --
10--                                                                          --
11-- GNAT is free software;  you can  redistribute it  and/or modify it under --
12-- terms of the  GNU General Public License as published  by the Free Soft- --
13-- ware  Foundation;  either version 3,  or (at your option) any later ver- --
14-- sion.  GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- --
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20--                                                                          --
21-- GNAT was originally developed  by the GNAT team at  New York University. --
22-- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc.      --
23--                                                                          --
24------------------------------------------------------------------------------
25
26--  This package provides the core high level routines used by GNATDLL
27--  to build Windows DLL
28
29with GNAT.OS_Lib;
30--  Should have USE here ???
31
32package MDLL is
33
34   subtype Argument_List is GNAT.OS_Lib.Argument_List;
35   subtype Argument_List_Access is GNAT.OS_Lib.Argument_List_Access;
36
37   Null_Argument_List : constant Argument_List := (1 .. 0 => new String'(""));
38
39   Null_Argument_List_Access : Argument_List_Access :=
40                                 new Argument_List (1 .. 0);
41
42   Tools_Error : exception;
43   --  Comment required
44
45   Verbose : Boolean := False;
46   Quiet   : Boolean := False;
47   --  Comment required ???
48
49   Kill_Suffix : Boolean := False;
50   --  Kill_Suffix is used by dlltool to know whether or not the @nn suffix
51   --  should be removed from the exported names. When Kill_Suffix is set to
52   --  True then dlltool -k option is used.
53
54   procedure Build_Dynamic_Library
55     (Ofiles        : Argument_List;
56      Afiles        : Argument_List;
57      Options       : Argument_List;
58      Bargs_Options : Argument_List;
59      Largs_Options : Argument_List;
60      Lib_Filename  : String;
61      Def_Filename  : String;
62      Lib_Address   : String  := "";
63      Build_Import  : Boolean := False;
64      Relocatable   : Boolean := False;
65      Map_File      : Boolean := False);
66   --  Build a DLL and the import library to link against the DLL.
67   --  this function handles relocatable and non relocatable DLL.
68   --  If the Afiles argument list contains some Ada units then it will
69   --  generate the right adainit and adafinal and integrate it in the DLL.
70   --  If the Afiles argument list is empty (there is only some object files
71   --  provided) then it will not try to build a binder file. This is ok to
72   --  build DLL containing no Ada code. If Map_File is set to True, a map
73   --  file named Lib_Filename & ".map" will be created.
74
75   procedure Build_Import_Library
76     (Lib_Filename : String;
77      Def_Filename : String);
78   --  Build an import library (.a) from a definition files. An import library
79   --  is needed to link against a DLL.
80
81end MDLL;
82