Purpose

IMPLIB creates import libraries used to link dynamic-link libraries with applications. The import library tells the application where to find the dynamic-link libraries at run time. See Managing Import Libraries (IMPLIB) for an explanation of import libraries and why they should be used with dynamic-link libraries.

Description

IMPLIB takes a module definition file (.DEF) as input. For each export definition in the .DEF file, IMPLIB generates a corresponding import definition.

The .LIB file generated by IMPLIB is used as input to LINK386, which creates an executable (.EXE) file. The .LIB file provides LINK386 with information about imported dynamic link functions.