DEF files [SOLVED]

[frankie]

We have found some problems on DEF files behaviour.
While using the symbol name as wrote in the source exports the correctly decorated symbol, it seems not possible to export a that symbol with the same name as in source code. I.e. the following don't generates any symbol:

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SampleFunction = _SampleFunction@8 ;without stdcall decorations and underscore

This DEF statement is ignored.

The exporting of forwarded symbols (as reported in the help) doesn't seem to work.
I.e:

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mybeep                = kernel32._Beep@8 ;This don't work

The address is not resolved when executable is loaded and program crashes!
Strangely it seems to work in this way including the DLL in the linker:

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mybeep                = _Beep@8


[TimoVJL]

And for Win32 x86

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#pragma comment(linker, "-export:MessageBoxA=user32.MessageBoxA")
gives

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POLINK: error: Unresolved external symbol 'MessageBoxA'.

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