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 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:46:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem linking cygwin dll with MSVC application Message-ID: <20040810234609.GA28229@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:22:01PM -0400, Mirko wrote: >I understand that I may be mis-using Cygwin. I am thus considering to >do the compilation and dll creation using MinGW, because, as I >understand it, that package is meant for program development on the MS >platform. However, I am not certain as how to create a DLL in MinGW >that is compatible with software compiled with MS' compiler. I posted a >such a question on the MinGW list. > >Any suggestions or pointers to documentation? If you don't need the UNIX-like utilities of cygwin, then you definitely should be using MinGW for your efforts. There really is very little difference between building dlls using MinGW and Cygwin. And, of course, MinGW questions belong on the mingw mailing list, as you know. -- 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/