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On 17/09/2011 10:16, xunxun wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
>     Gcc plugin has landed in the release for a long time. Will cygwin or
> other windows gcc have possibility to support this function?
> 

  Not without a lot of work, perhaps adopting something like flexdll, but in
windows, although an exe can import symbols from a dll, it is almost
impossible for a dll to import symbols from an exe in any generic way.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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