I do not know C or C++ and have no personal experience with this, but based on Google searches, it appears that the Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express command-line compiler can create 32-bit DLLs. To create 64-bit DLLs, the latest Windows SDK is also needed, combined with knowledge of environment variables and command-line parameters. The following articles were informative (note that long URLs may wrap):
Compiling into 64 bit DLLs with Microsoft VC++ 2010 Express - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vclanguage/thread/60ec5033-4241-46a1-85d5-8458bc0d3f86 Can't build a 64-bit project with Visual C++ 2010 Express - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/Vsexpressvc/thread/4ce313a3-cb5f-43fc-bbb9-50233f8ed11bBuild settings in the VC++ GUI, and the command-line tools == madness! LOL :-) -
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/vclanguage/thread/57abe9f3-9c91-4ca8-b7c6-d06bbb94b414 Jamal On 2/20/2011 8:55 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
Thanks for the reassurance about cl.exe. Now how about making dlls at the command line. The situation is this: The work is actually for liblouis and liblouisutdl, which will be used as native libraries in the Java-encoded BrailleBlaster project. We have been trying to use MinGW-msys, but it has been very troublesome. I want to explore the Microsoft compilers as an alternate. I will have a directory containing a bunch of C modules. I want to combine them into a dll. What additional files do I have to create? What should be in the nmake file? Can I specify 32 or 64 bit compilation? John On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:00:26PM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:John, I think installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition will install the command-line compiler at this location by default: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cl.exe Jamal On 2/20/2011 6:44 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:Jamal, Please refresh my memory. Does Visual C++ Express have command line cl, nmake and so on? Is there documentation on making a dll? Thanks, John On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:30:16PM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:Due to the serious accessibility problems of the web page for downloading Express Editions of Visual Studio 2010, I have now posted the installers for Visual Basic, Visual C#, and Visual C++ on my web site. The Visual Web product is not included here because it involves more extensive pre-installation requirements. These installers retrieve software directly from the Microsoft web site, so one obtains the same components either way. Visual Basic http://EmpowermentZone.com/vb_web.exe Visual C# http://EmpowermentZone.com/vcs_web.exe Visual C++ http://EmpowermentZone.com/vc_web.exe These installers assume that version 4 of the .NET Framework is installed. One way of installing it is via the GotNET utility, available at http://EmpowermentZone.com/netsetup.exe After installing a VS Express Edition, go to the Register dialog off the Help menu and choose the button to get a registration key online. After signing into this Microsoft site, you can get a key from a resulting web page or email message. Copy and paste that key into the registration dialog. Let me suggest that this is a particularly good time for evaluating how well different screen readers work with Visual Studio, and reporting those observations. The latest JAWS, NVDA, and Window-Eyes versions are all claiming VS support. If we find that a screen reader works better than others in particular ways, the developers of competing screen readers may be motivated to address their weaknesses so that they can distinguish themselves as offering the best -- or at least equivalent -- VS support. Jamal __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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