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Re: DLL problems understood, but not solved
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- Subject: Re: DLL problems understood, but not solved
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:13:43 +1100 (EST)
Nick van Eijndhoven, you wrote:
>
> 3) Make sure that the GNU produced DLL's can be used together with the
> Microsoft visual C++ produced DLL's.
> This is vital in my case (being a member of a large high energy physics experiment
> where some packages use MS visual C++ stuff).
If your DLLs stick to a C interface, that should be OK.
However, if your DLLs have a C++ interface, then what you ask is
impossible. The C++ ABI used by MS Visual C++ is an undocumented
proprietry ABI. In fact, I think some aspects of its ABI may even
have been patented.
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