Mail Archives: cygwin/1996/10/17/23:51:41
At 09:56 17/10/1996 -0700, Jeff Bronte wrote:
>At 01:19 PM 10/17/96 +0930, Brian Modra wrote:
>>Assuming that I create a GUI front end using MSVC++ (and prototype
>>some extern "C" fuunctions), can I link in with g++? The main program
>>would be compiled with g++.
>>Alternatively, can I link g++ compiled objects with MV Visual Basic
>>objects, or is MSVB interpreted only?
>>Any other ideas?
>>Thanks
>>
>>--
>>Brian Modra, Contracted Software Engineer from AMRAD Pty Ltd
>
>Assuming that GNU Win32 has all the common network calls...
>
>If I had to solve your problem of tacking a GUI onto GNU I would
>use RPC's (Remote Procedure Calls). If you are not familiar with
>network programming using this powerful tool (many of the internal services
>found in any UNIX box are based on RPC's) you can get an
>excellent book from O'Reilly and Associates.
.... stuff deleted
Getting RPC working with gcc is probably a fair size job. It would be
easier to create a DLL using gcc which could be called from the application
built using VC++.
The functions exported in the DLL would have to be C functions (with C linkage).
Windows is implemented largely with DLLs built using Microsoft tools, and
gcc has no trouble using them. I wouldn't expect too many problems the
other way around (i.e. app built with microsoft tools calling functions in a
dll built with gcc).
Trevor Yann
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