[Gmsh] Gmsh DLL linkin error, not able to find functions in DLL with dependency walker

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 26 Sep 2013, at 18:24, kim nielsen martinez <kimepa11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a long email yesterday, but now I just would like to ask a simple question to see if it is easier to answer and it gives me a clue about how to proceed now.
> 
> I compiled gmsh as a DLL with Cmake. If I just compile the SHARED project, compilation goes fine.
> 
> But if I try to compile gmsh project, it gives the following error:
> 
> fatal error LNK1104 cannot open file Debug\Gmsh.lib, in file gmsh of project gmsh
> 
> Any suggestion what I´m doing wrong?
> 
> Furthermore, I opened gmsh.dll (which I compiled from shared project) with dependency walker to look for the actual names of some methods/functions in the library in order to call them in my app, but it gives error such as:
> - Error: At least one required implicit or forwarded dependency was not found.
> Morever, I can't find any of the functions such as GmshInitialize() or GmshFinalize()... Is there any additional step that must be done to get a correct DLL?
> 
> Thank you very much for your attention, I hope you can help me to solve this problem that has been occupying my time for the last week so far..


Hi Kim - We have very little (no ?) experience with Windows DLLs. The only DLL I have ever generated for Gmsh is the one that I build automatically every night using the mingw compiler to build the dynamic Windows buid (see http://geuz.org/gmsh/bin/Windows/gmsh-svn-Windows64-dynamic.zip).

Maybe other people on the list can help...

Christophe


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