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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:04:12 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: Torben Neesgaard <torben AT superusers DOT dk>
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Subject: Re: How to make g++ link with QT (a microsoft compatible  library) on x86
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Yep - this is the expected behavior! :) GNU g++ and MSVC
use different (incompatible) naming schemes to describe
symbols in C++ classes, thus the GNU linker cannot find the
appropriate symbol name for the QT symbols when linking
against MSVC compiled QT.

Torben Neesgaard wrote:

> Hi
> Is there a g++ switch for linking with foreign libraries?
> 
> Under Windows 2000, using g++, I am trying to link with QT, 
> which is released only for Microsoft Visual C++. 
> I get the error-messages shown below. Supposing this caused by
> incompatibilities between g++ and Visual C I am searching for 
> a switch or something to cope with it. Is g++ that clever?
> Please don't tell me to recompile g++ with Visual C++...





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