It is generally said that a "standard" DLL with exported functions cannot be made in VB. In fact, it only requires a simple process of hooking into the linker command line at compile time, in order to tell VB to add extra functions to the export table.
Thank you to Ron Petrusha for this. Although creating a standard DLL (or controlling the compiler switches generally) turns out to be an extremely simple task, it is not at all an obvious one.
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