gendef(1)						      General Commands Manual							 gendef(1)

NAME

       gendef - DLL export extractor

SYNOPSIS

       gendef [options] <DLL>

DESCRIPTION

       gendef dumps DLL export information from 32- and 64-bit Windows executables (respectively PE32 and PE32+ executables).

OPTIONS

       -      Dump to stdout

       -h, --help
	      Briefly describe the syntax and options.

       -a, --assume-stdcall
	      Assume functions with ambiguous calling conventions use stdcall.

       -I, --include-def-path <path>
	      Add additional search paths in which to look for hint .def files.

       -f, --no-forward-output
	      Don't output forwarders.

OUTPUT

       By default gendef writes the DLL export information to a file named after the DLL, replacing .dll with .def.

KNOWN ISSUES

       For  32-bit  DLLs,  gendef cannot detect if a function with no return value (void) exported by a DLL uses stdcall or cdecl. Two workarounds
       are available: either use the "-a" option to force stdcall calling conventions, or generate .def files for any DLLs the DLL  you're  inter-
       ested in depends upon. gendef will read other .def files found in the working directory to determine the calling convention in use.

       64-bit DLLs are not affected, since they only use a single calling convention.

SEE ALSO

       genidl(1)

AUTHORS

       gendef was written by Kai Tietz and Jonathan Yong of the MinGW-w64 project.

       This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, based on information provided with the program and in the project's wiki, for
       the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

gendef								   Oct	6, 2011 							 gendef(1)