[Dev-C++] Linking a Dev-C++ DLL using VC++.net

[Dirk T. <d.t...@gm...>]

Help!

I'm new to this list and quite new to programming on Windows, so please=20
forgive me any ignorance.

I like Dev-C++ a lot and find it more usable in many respects than the=20
commercial M$ offerings.

My problem is as follow: I have a source-code (in plain C for gcc) of a=20
library I need to use in a Visual-Studio project (for the W32 gui).

I was able to successfully port (compile and link) the library into a=20
dll using Dev-C++ (current - good job, folks) and the dll projects type=20
(using declspec etc. for exports).

Then I created a small VC++.net project and included the import library=20
and headers. everything links fine but the test app crashes on the=20
first library call with a read access violation.

After much fiddling and reading I started loading the DLL and calling=20
some functions dynamically using GetProcAddress().
This works as expected and leads me to thinking that there is some=20
incompatibility in the import library.

Can it be the calling convention? I did not declare any and the=20
def-file created by Dev-C++ does not contain underscores nor=20
@<paramtersize> decorations.

It would also be an option to link statically against the GCC-built=20
library using VC++.
I tried that but also got nothing but crashes. Is that possible at all?

Note that I only use pure C, no C++ anywhere.

Any help is very much ap=FCpreciated!

Greetings,
Dirk