[mythtv] Ticket #4497: Win32 builds broken after r15435

[buzz]

 Andrei,

> It's the "chicken and egg" situation. You can't generate .def files using
> this tool (or other tools) because in theory, you don't have any .dll's
> yet
> (you do from previous builds but that's not the point).
>
<hopefully not too nieve a question>
Well actually, I think that is the point... Since we do have dll's being
successfully built (for some SVN revisions), why not just create a .def file
automatically from these? (using dll2def or pexports?)  If you want to be
thorough, you could re-create the .def file after a successful .dll is
built, and emit some meaningful warning/error message if it's different than
the one used the first-time-round?

wouldn't that work?
<end question>


>
>
> This is why this "bootstrapping" - creating of import libraries from .def
> files was invented in the first place, and this is how I solved initial
> circular dependencies.

Yes, and we all win32-ers thankyou for it!   :-)

Buzz.
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