[Mingw-users] MSVC C++ linkage from MinGW GCC

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Hi,

Has anyone done some work on, or know of a faq for, or
something, for linking against msvc mangled names from GCC?

Specifically, I am attempting to get the DX9 sdk working
with MinGW.  I am trying to get GCC-generated .o's compiled
against the proper DX SDK headers link to the official DX9
.lib's (as some of them seem to be more than just simple
dll import things).  The trouble I am having is the
difference in name mangling/decoration, and I may have
ABI troubles afterwards.

It seems reasonable to me to assume that GCC and MSVC
have a similar ABI, based on what I have read in the MSVC
docs..

Can anyone give me some pointers on making this linkage work
(mangling conversion, ABI conversion, whatever)?  Has
anyone done this before?  If so/if not, any starting
points, and any idea how much work it would be?


Aaron