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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:15:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: xiao chen <chenxiaoellen AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: use cygwin generated dll in vc program
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, xiao chen wrote:
>
> > dear everyone,
> >
> > another question is,
> > how can i apply the dll generated in cygwin to windows?
> > when i link my program to dll and compile in cygwin enviroment, it does
> > work. but when i link the .a file generated to vc++ enviroment and try to
> > compile my program, it fails AT running..
> >
> > can someone help me?
>
> Chenxiao,
>
> Take a look at <http://neuro.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/dll-stuff/index.html>
> Searching this list might also help, IIRC, someone posted DLL-building
> instructions recently...

I should also mention that this will only work with DLLs containing pure C
functions, since g++ and MSVC use different name mangling schemes for C++
functions.
	Igor
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