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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:37:45 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: MSVC-dll under cygwin
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Mikael ?sberg wrote:
>Hello, I was under the impression that using a Cygwin-compiled DLL
>under MSVC was extremely difficult, if not impossible, but using a
>MSVC-compiled DLL with programs compiled under Cygwin is possible?  I
>have test program that first calls LoadLibrary() and then for each
>function in the DLL it wants to call I call GetProcAddress().  However,
>when I try to call any function the program segfaults (the function
>pointers are not NULL).  The same test program works if compiled using
>MSVC.  Am I mistaken that this should work or is there an error
>somewhere?

Since cygwin itself uses all sorts of non-cygwin dlls, it is a safe
assumption that it must be able to use non-cygwin dlls.

However, if you are using stdio from msvcrt, you may run into problems.

cgf

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