Subject: RE: Problems building DLLs with cygwin
From: [email-masked] (Steve Willer)

6 Dec 1996 07:17:57 -0800
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On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Colin Peters wrote:

> One place which it's fairly certain this will not work is with C++, since every
> compiler does different name mangling.

Unless you use extern "C". However, I think that Borland implements
exception-handling code in their C++ DLL functions, and you need to
override this behavior with a special .obj file to make your DLL work
right with programs compiled with other compilers (a lowest common
denominator approach).

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