From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: MS compatible DLL's with cygwin32 (fwd)
26 Sep 1997 04:55:39 -0700
Message-ID: <199709261134.VAA12091.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

jeffdb AT netzone DOT com writes:

>Look at the mangled names in your dll.
>Look at the mangled names in the VC++ dll.
>
>Use Dlltool to create an import library
>
>def file
>EXPORTS
>MSmangledname=g++mangledname
>
>I don't know that this will work, but it is the only
>possibility I can see.
>
>We really need a tool that will translate VC++
>cplusplus names to g++ names, does anyone
>know how to do this?

That won't work.  See the gnu.g++.help FAQ list for an explanation
of why not.  (Short summary: there is no standard ABI for C++.
Class layouts, vtables, etc. will differ between different C++ compilers.)

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