Re: [Dev-C++] problem using dll: is c++ error??!?

[Axel B. <th...@th...>]

OROSZI Balázs wrote:

> No, sadly that will never be possible in the foreseeable future.
> 
> To complicate things even more, GCC itself changes it's own name 
> mangling-scheme from time-to-time. That means for example, C++ libraries 
> (not just DLLs, but static ones also) that are compiled with GCC 3.2.3 
> cannot be used with GCC 3.3.3, because of the name mangling changed 
> between these versions too.
> I just added this as a side note, because it caused quite a lot of 
> headache for me until I figured this out... :)

oh yeah, thanks, this fact is just sooooooo well documented. if I had 
known this I hadnt even tried ... . does anyone actually mention this in 
its documentation or is this just a fact "one knows"?? :-)

one wonders whether this should be standardized so that ALL libs from 
ALL compilers could be used together. well.

but anyhow - i managed to re-compile berkeley db with dev-c++, using the 
"import msvc project" function (GREEAAAAATTT!!!! - I did not realize I 
had such a thing until it bit me ;-) and modifying some #defines. now it 
should work just fine :-))


thanks and greetings,

axel.