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From: "David Feustel" <dfeustel AT mindspring DOT com>
To: "Leo Liberti" <leoliberti AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using cygwin to make C++ DLL's to link with MSVC++
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:47:47 -0500
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MKS is now offering a package of header files and dlls
that permit compilation of Unix software with VS 6.
I only found out about this package a few days ago
so I have no experience with it. MKS offers a 30-day
evaluation of the software on CDROM.

See http://www.mks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo Liberti" <leoliberti AT yahoo DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: Using cygwin to make C++ DLL's to link with MSVC++


> Hi. I have written a big application in a Unix
> GNU environment (GCC + tools), and I've been asked
> to port it to Windows. Needless to say, MSVC++ 6.0
> just spits it out. So I downloaded Cygwin, and it
> compiled it. I then read everything I could on
> "how to make a .DLL" and after much struggling, I made
> the DLLs. But now I can't link under Windows.
> My guess is that the different C++ mangling scheme
> is causing trouble at link time (the MS linker says
> it can't find the functions, but in fact they are
> clearly there, dumpbin.exe says - but the mangled
> names are actually different). 
> 
> Anybody ever experienced this problem? In the faq
> it says that you can mix gcc .o and ms .obj as long as
> they are C. If it's C++, it says, it going to be 
> difficult. Now, is it difficult or impossible?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Leo
> 
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