Linking Windows dll with GCC application on cygwin

[Jie Xu]

Thanks a lot!

-Jie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Peshansky" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Jie Xu" <jiexu@iems.northwestern.edu>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Linking Windows dll with GCC application on cygwin


> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Jie Xu wrote:
>
>> I have a dll, for which I don't have the source code, compiled in Visual
>> Studio .NET 2003. How can I link this dll with my C++ codes compiled in
>> GCC on cygwin?
>
> The short answer is: you can't (in general).  C++ name mangling is
> different in GCC and MSVC, so you won't be able to link C++ calls
> properly.
>
> If the functionality exported is all 'extern "C"', you can link to the DLL
> by simply specifying it on the command line.  One thing to keep in mind is
> that the MSVC DLL is going to use the MSVC runtime, and your Cygwin code
> will use the Cygwin runtime, and mixing runtimes is usually not a good
> idea.  Unless you're sure that the functionality you use from the MSVC DLL
> is going to behave properly, be prepared to track down some nasty bugs.
> HTH,
> Igor
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