From:	fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject:	Re: DLL problems understood, but not solved
19 Mar 1997 19:38:51 -0800 :
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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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