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To: Jonathan Wilson <wilsonj AT xoommail DOT com>
cc: "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: can you export a c++ class from a cygwin32/mingw32 dll? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:23:40 +0800."
             <37A25E2C DOT 5EFB5163 AT xoommail DOT com> 
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:26:53 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

Jonathan Wilson <wilsonj AT xoommail DOT com> writes:
> can you export a c++ class from a cygwin32/mingw32 dll?
> how do you do it?

What have you done/tried?

> i have an existing dll that exports a c++ class... can i use that from
> cygwin32? the dll was writem in ms vc++ and i also have a matching
> borland c++ dll. i do have the source but i am unsure as to how it would
> compile in cygwin32...

If you're using my compiler distribution(s), which you should if you're
using C++, then the following works just fine:
  
  class __declspec(dllexport) 
  foo 
  {
    // ....
  };

The next release, gcc-2.95, should be better in this respect. 

http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ for more
info.

Regards,
Mumit



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