Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <008101c2da8f$824fedd0$666d86d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Wil Hunt" References: Subject: Re: Creating DLLs with Cygwin/g++ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:29:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Hey all, > > I'm rather new to DLL programming and my C++ days are five years behind > me. So please bear with me. :) > > I'd like to write a C++ program that will link as a DLL to be loaded as > a plugin in another application. I've broken the learning process down as > follows: > > 1) Make and compile a simple C++ Hello, World program. -- Done. > 2) Make and compile a simple C++ Hell, DLL program. -- Not done.... > 3) Create Basic DLL with Plugin-API, etc. > 4) Write program... > > Getting stuck on step 2. Yeeks! I've found a couple of sites out there > that discuss in very little detail the process of creating DLLs, but not > enough to get through my thick skull. > > 1) Are there any sites that provide a walk-through with sample code so I can > see it working? and.. > 2) Are there any sites that discuss what exactly is needed in the process of > DLL creation so I understand what's going on and not just walking through a > bunch of steps that someone told me to do. I like to understand what I'm > doing. :) See above :-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/