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From: nate@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Nathan Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Having an EXE and DLL of the same name
Message-ID: <16270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 01:31:37 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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>I'm probably missing something really obvious here.  I have a program
>which requires a DLL to go along with it.   I'd like to have them named
>the same (e.g. XYZPROG.EXE and XYZPROG.DLL).  The problem is that when
>I try to declare an import function from the DLL in the DEF for the EXE,
>link complains about a "self-import," thinking the EXE is trying to import
>from itself.
>
>I'd really prefer not to have to import the functions explicitly.  Is
>there some simple way around this problem?  Thanks in advance.
>
set the 'NAME' field in your DLL .DEF file to a different value than the
'NAME' field in your program's .DEF file...
Regards,
Nathan
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