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From: "Judd" <jbogus1 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: More Info
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:59:52 -0600
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"Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in message
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> At 06:10 PM 5/3/2004, you wrote:
> >Judd schrieb:
> >>Oh I know.  This is the Windows PC version (should have stated that
> >>earlier).  OpenInventor has a freeware Linux version and a Windows PC
> >>version distributed by TGS.  The version I'm using is the Windows PC
version
> >>which has libraries that work with Visual C++.  I just don't know if
Cygwin
> >>can use VC++ type library binaries.  I don't recall the format of Visual
C++
> >>objects anymore (OMT?).  It's a been a bit.
> >>
> >>>>I have a feeling they work with isual C++ and their object format.
> >>>>Can the g++ linker in Cygwin work with Visual C++ object libraries?
> >
> >Generally not, only if they provided their libs as extern "C".
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC103
> >
> >And Google for "cygwin g++ msvc link +site:cygwin.com"
>
>
> Right.  I just looked up OpenInventor and it is a C++ library.  So linking
> against the Visual C++ libraries won't work.  Looks like you'll need to
> build a Cygwin version first.

Tried that... talk about a major pain (more compilation problems than you
can shake a stick at).  I guess I'll be rewriting the code for a standard
Win32 environment.  What a drag!

Thank you all again!




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