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Is there any way to automatically generate the DEF file for a DLL in Visual Studio? I've always just manually created them before, but there's gotta be an easier way.
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To create a DLL project in Visual Studio 2019On the menu bar, choose File > New > Project to open the Create a New Project dialog box. At the top of the dialog, set Language to C++, set Platform to Windows, and set Project type to Library.
Right-click the selected objects, and select Export Selected Objects. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the appropriate folder, and click Save. The . def file of the selected objects is exported to the specified location.
A module-definition or DEF file (*. def) is a text file containing one or more module statements that describe various attributes of a DLL. If you are not using the __declspec(dllexport) keyword to export the DLL's functions, the DLL requires a DEF file.
I have found a place to generate the .DEF file for you here: expdef - def file generator
This works amazing and has a list of options you could also generate besides the method names of the functions and symbols.
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