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Subject: RE: Trying to link an MSVC DLL with a Cygwin Application
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:22:29 +1000
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> From: john george
>
> I'm trying to link a MSVC++  created DLL with a cygwin
> application. 
>
> ...
>
> This gives me undefined refernce to function name ...
> 
> Is there anything that I'm missing?

The g++ and MSVC++ mangle C++ names differently.  This makes
it very difficult (perhaps impossible) to link a MSVC++ 
created DLL with a g++ compiled (cygwin or mingw) application.

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