On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, György 'Nog' Jeney wrote:
Folks,
msvcrt has this in its spec file:
dlls/msvcrt/msvcrt.spec:@ forward -noimport _itoa ntdll._itoa
^^^^^^^^^This is your problem. This tell winebuild to not export this function to winelib apps. The reason for this is probably to make pepole use the native unix version. Why I dont know.
There is no native implementation of '_itoa'. 'itoa' yes, '_itoa', no.
However, in the past all Winelib applications would link to ntdll.dll and I think this is why all the functions that just forward to ntdll would have the -noimport flag. I guess that the goal was to avoid un unnecessary indirection.
Nowadays this may not be wise anymore since most Winelib applications link to msvcrt.dll, not ntdll.dll. This makes it necessary to modify the Makefiles to also link with ntdll.dll which seems a bit ugly. Might not be so bad though.