Stop creation of .lib and .exp when building a .dll with Visual Studio

I am building a .dll using the Visual Studio toolset (2008). When I do the linking step:

link -nologo -OUT:Foo.dll Foo.obj -DLL -IMPLIB:None.lib

This creates None.lib and None.exp. It also displays the message:

Creating library None.lib and object None.exp

I'd like to suppress the creation of those two files, and the associated message. The message is annoying and makes it开发者_运维技巧 hard to see more useful messages in the build log. The files aren't particularly big but do contribute to hard drive traffic and file fragmentation.

I have tried looking for flags that I can pass to link, without any luck. I also tried setting -IMPLIB:nul, but that fails as it tries to read from the nul.exp first.

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There are no flags you can pass to LINK to prevent the creation of an import library or exports file.

I suggest you simply ignore the message.