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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:13:07 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: gcc/ ld/ Mixing C++ objects from gcc and msvc : possible link ?
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:37:36PM +0100, RzR www.rzr.online.fr wrote:
>> > A foo.lib can be used interchangeably with a libfoo.a file.  Except
>Yea I did not realize that was just a convention (I was also confused
>on cygwin :  .so vs .dll)
>
>> > for the well-documented and frequently repeated problems with C++
>> > name mangling, and the even more repeated problems with mixing
>> > the cygwin and msvcrt runtime libraries, there should be no problems
>> > with using a .lib file on the gcc command line or a .a file on the
>> > "cl" command line.
>> ==
>> You cannot intermix non-trivial C++ (and, in many cases, even C) object
>> files between compilers.
>> ==
>> 
>> I'm not saying that it can't be done in some specialized circumstances,
>... if it is not impossible, let's do it :)

Great.

*pause*

It's done!

Onto the next problem.

cgf

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