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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Q: mixing MSVC++ and gcc C++ libs/dlls ?
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:20:34 -0700
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Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:

> Anyway, gcc and MSVC don't use the same name mangling (decoration) schemes for
> C++ so you will not be able to mix the two. 

And the reason for *that* is that the two compilers lay out objects
differently (especially virtual tables). So, the only way you can mix
them is to use extern "C" wrappers (quite apart from the problems of
mixing and matching /MT, /MD and other funky runtime combinations of MS
DLLs).



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