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From: "Sean Keogh" <gitboy95 AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Compiling Windows dll's with djgpp/gcc
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:42:39 GMT
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John M. Aldrich wrote in message <3447EA2E DOT 44D4 AT cs DOT com>...
>Hamish Rose wrote:
>>
>> Is this possible?
>
>The short answer:  No.
>
>The long answer:  DJGPP is a DOS-native compiler; it cannot inherently
>produce Windows-native code; therefore it cannot use or create DLLs.
>However, there exist numerous add-on toolkits that either allow you to
>produce things similar to DLLs for DJGPP programs, and there is even a
>toolkit which allows DJGPP to produce Win32-native code.  It's called
>rsxntdj and is available from SimTel mirrors in the same place you got
>DJGPP.  Be sure to read the insructions before using it!!


There is also a Win32 port of some (most?) of the GNU C/C++ development
tools to Win32. It's called mingw32, and you can find it at
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/
It comes with all the Win32 libraries, header files etc, and seems to
support all of the VC++ features other than MFC. With this, you CAN compile
DLL files (but I'm not sure how, having never done it myself).

Sean Keogh - gitboy95 AT hotmail DOT com