DLL Conventions: Issues and Solutions - Part II - How to identify exported symbols

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You can use any tool that dumps information about a DLL import/export, such as tdump from Borland, or Dependency Walker (which comes bundled with Visual Studio). I use Depends.exe most of the time; I used it to view the exports from the MSVC as well as the BCB DLL. Below are the screen shots for the same. Figure 1 shows the exports for the DLL built with Borland C++ builder and Figure 2 shows the exports for the DLL built with Visual C++ Compiler.

Fig 1: Exports from the BCB built DemoDLL.dll

Fig 2: Exports from the MSVC built DemoDLL.dll

In order to see the true linker names you should turn the undecorated feature to off, as shown in Figure 3.

Fig 3: Turn undercoating OFF in order to view true linker names

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