Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Q: mixing MSVC++ and gcc C++ libs/dlls ? Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:20:34 -0700 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <200310231521.35953.h.nardmann@secunet.de> <20031023141929.GB25894@linux_rln.harvest> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20031023141929.GB25894@linux_rln.harvest> Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Anyway, gcc and MSVC don't use the same name mangling (decoration) schemes for > C++ so you will not be able to mix the two. And the reason for *that* is that the two compilers lay out objects differently (especially virtual tables). So, the only way you can mix them is to use extern "C" wrappers (quite apart from the problems of mixing and matching /MT, /MD and other funky runtime combinations of MS DLLs). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/