RE: dll link error using Cygwin gcc

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 13 June 2007 19:45, Harold Mills wrote:

> As Dave Korn and Brian Dessent both pointed out, my problem was that gcc was
> compiling Hello.c with the default cdecl calling convention, but the library
> I wanted to link to uses the stdcall convention. Adding __stdcall to the
> function declarations in the header file eci.h fixed the problem. Dave
> suggested using the --enable-stdcall-fixup link option, which from the ld
> documentation did seem like it would do the trick, but I couldn't get it to
> work. I specified it to gcc as -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup, but still got the
> "undefined reference" error message.

  In any case, Brian was right and my suggestion was wrong: if the library was
compiled with a different calling convention, bodging the symbols to match up
isn't the right thing to do, because the code will go wrong at runtime.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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