How to build a DLL from the command line in Windows using MSVC

Question

I\'ve been doing C for about 20 years but I\'ve never built a DLL; I\'ve always prefered to statically link.

I use the command line - cl.exe, etc - and gnumake makef

Answer 1

On the command line use:

cl.exe /LD 

or, if you prefer the more verbose & explicit version:

cl.exe /D_USRDLL /D_WINDLL   /link /DLL /OUT:.dll