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To: Stu Fullmer <sfullmer AT wwg DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Building DLL's 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:11:39 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:51:15 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

Stu Fullmer <sfullmer AT wwg DOT com> writes:
> I'm trying to build a DLL that can pass back constant strings. The first
> thing I did was to create a small test
> DLL to see if I can get it to work. I feel like I'm really close, but I
> still can't quite get it. Here is the deal. My
> example DLL has functions that pass back pointers to char streams (which are
> constant). I then try to print
> this string in my test app using cout.
> When the string goes to print it's garbage. However, my other functions work
> fine. Any ideas. Thanks.

Please provide your small testcase so we can help. In the meantime, you
may want to get the dllhelpers package that has a few examples of building
DLLs for Cygwin. See
  http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/dllhelpers.html
for more info.

Regards,
Mumit


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