Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 17:04:59 +0100 Message-ID: <7628-Tue04Jul2000170459+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.6.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.6.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: library doesnt work In-Reply-To: <20000702121343.E21037@cygnus.com> References: <20000702084002.73407.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000702121343.E21037@cygnus.com> On Sunday 2 Jul 00, Chris Faylor writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 10:38:49AM +0200, Meffo Leoni wrote: > >I imported a c++ cygwin compiled library in MSVC enviroment but doesnt > >work I didnt find any help in the faq , where I can find more > >instructions??? > > If this is, in fact, true, could you add something to the FAQ about this? > C++ libraries compiled with MSVC will not work with gcc since the two > use different name mangling schemes and MSVC is apparently protected by > either copyright or patent or something equally stupid. The FAQ currently contains the entry: Can I mix objects compiled with msvc++ and gcc? Yes, but only if you are combining C object files. MSVC C++ uses a different mangling scheme than GNU C++, so you will have difficulties combining C++ objects. Is this good enough? It doesn't say "stupid". I'll remove the disclaimer about not being updated for the current release. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com