Re: [Mingw-users] _imp__ prefixes when linking

[Christoph G. <cw...@fa...>]

Mikko Lyly writes:

> 1) Both BLAS and LAPACK 3.4.0 should compile with MinGW out of the box:
>
> (...)
>
> 2) The error message "undefined reference to '_imp__strevc_'" is most
> probably due to the presence of __declspec(import) attribute in front
> of the prototype of strevc() in one of your project header files, as
> already pointed out by Eli Zaretskii.
>
> If so, you can just remove that attribute when linking against the static
> libraries.

Mikko,

Thank you very much for your reply.  It brought me on the right track:
The __declspec(import) is added by Cython to all functions declared with

cdef extern:
    ...

To avoid this, we are now using the form:

cdef extern from "some_header.h":
    ...

Christoph