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Re: Creating DLL's for use with MSVC


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:38:06AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
> >On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC120
> >
> >I am probably wrong, as I'm sure cgf is *way* more knowledgable than I,
> >but I got the impression this was no longer true via the <mingw-users
> >at lists dot sourceforge dot net> list.
>
> The last I saw, there was a big discussion about this on the gcc mailing
> list and everyone agreed that gcc was not going to change anytime soon.
>
> As always, it is possible to link some C objects between MSVC and gcc.
> It isn't possible to link C++ objects which export symbols.
>
> However if you think this has changed why not post a URL which explains
> how this came to be?
>
Because it took me 20 minutes to dig back through the list archives and
find the set of posts that confused me :^\?  I still don't think I found
all of them.

Nevertheless, the redirect to mingw-users was, IMHO, valuable
and appropriate.

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