http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7k30y2k5.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/527z7zfs.aspx
Main linker.exe reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y0zzbyt4.aspx
MSVC and MinGW DLLs
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs
The moron's guide may also be helpful
http://www.emmestech.com/moron_guides/moron1.html
Catching the DLLs content _imp__
pexports libapr-1.dll | sed 's/^_imp__//' > libapr-1.def pexports libaprutil-1.dll | sed 's/^_imp__//' > libaprutil-1.def pexports libhttpd.dll | sed 's/^_imp__//' > libhttpd.def
then do
dlltool -U -d libapr-1.def -l libapr-1.dll.a dlltool -U -d libaprutil-1.def -l libaprutil-1.dll.a dlltool -U -d libhttpd.def -l libhttpd.dll.a
Vincent tried this in 2004
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@apr.apache.org/msg11024.html
And Nimrod A. Abing tried this in 2009
http://www.mail-archive.com/modwsgi@googlegroups.com/msg01221.html