<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi there, the Windows KDE project has dbus binaries for Windows created by/for different compilers. Eg. cf. <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/stable/"><http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/stable/></a>, or <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-windows/files/dbus/1.4.1-2/"><http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-windows/files/dbus/1.4.1-2/></a>. Compiling the language binding for Windows with MSC works, but the linking process does not succeed. There are 78 messages like these: <blockquote>dbusoorexx-32.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_@dbus_threads_init_default@0 referenced in function _dbusLoader@4 dbusoorexx-32.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_@dbus_get_version@12 referenced in function @DbusVersion_impl@4 dbusoorexx-32.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_@dbus_error_free@4 referenced in function @DbusValidate_impl@12 ... cut ... </blockquote> Researching the Internet there have been hints that the mostlikely case for that MS linker error is that the library was not given/found. AFAICT, the library should be found. (LIB contains the directory with the "dbus-1.lib" file which is explicitly listed as one of the libraries to link to). Here are the paths to the lib-dirs: <blockquote>E:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;E:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\LIB;E:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\lib;;e:\programme\dbus-1\lib;D:\Programme\ooRexx\api </blockquote> Here the link command in the nmake Makefile: <blockquote>link /nologo /SUBSYSTEM:Windows rexx.lib rexxapi.lib dbus-1.lib WS2_32.lib /def:dbusoorexx-32.def /DLL dbusoorexx-32.obj -out:dbusoorexx-32.dll </blockquote> Also trying to create an import library directly off the dbus-1.dll (using the MS tools "dumpbin /exports ..." and "lib /def:...") succeeded, but the linking is not successful, giving the same linking errors as above. The version of the MS compiler (referred to as "vc90" for the dbus binaries of the Windows-KDE project): <blockquote>Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.30729.01 for 80x86 </blockquote> Probably (hopefully) I am doing something stupid, hence the request for ideas, hints or pointers! TIA, ---rony P.S.: Also tried to create a Windows version of dbus from the latest git using cygwin, which has not succeeded. Then downloaded cmake and tried to follow the README.* files using the MS compiler, then also downloaded and used MinGW, which all succeed with the configuration part, but make does not run successfully. (The cmake MS variant at least created a dbus-1.dll with lib- and exp-files. But using them yields the same link error as above.) </body> </html>