Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/02/06/15:33:26
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:20:23PM -0800, Barubary wrote:
>What about the more important problem that Microsoft's patented virtual
>table system, which COM uses, isn't supported by GCC?
Aren't virtual tables a feature of "C++"?
cgf
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:18 AM
>Subject: Re: DirectX8/DirectInput + cygwin
>
>
>>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>>>>Dylan Cuthbert wrote:
>>>>>>I am linking directly with the .lib files supplied by Microsoft, and
>>>>>>all the Directx8 GUID references seem to link fine so does anybody have
>>>>>>any idea what the problem might be?
>>>>>>
>>>>>Why ? Link against those in /usr/lib. gcc doesn't understand the MS
>>>>>export libraries.
>>>>
>>>>Actually, gcc/ld should understand non-c++ import libraries.
>>>
>>>Is this a new feature or I was missing something all the time ? What's
>>>the point of tools which build .a files from dlls ?
>>
>>If you have an existing .lib import library it should work fine with
>>ld. This has been the case for years.
>>
>>This is not to say that there haven't been bugs over the years, but
>>AFAIK, there aren't any in the current version of cygwin.
>>
>>If it helps you can rename foo.lib to libfoo.a so that you can add
>>-lfoo to the command line.
>>
>>You can also link against the dll itself, in many cases:
>>
>>gcc -o foo.exe foo.c blah.dll
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