Re: [Mingw-users] Dynamically loading MSVC DLL from MinGW code

[George B. <sib...@ya...>]

On 7/17/2011 2:57 PM, NightStrike wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM, George Brink<sib...@ya...>  wrote:
>> On 7/15/2011 1:41 AM, Paul Steckler wrote:
>>>     Will that approach work with MSVC-compiled DLLs? Is the format of an MSVC
>>> DLL the same a MinGW library created with the -shared flag?
>> DLL format is defined by OS and does not depend on compiler or language.
>> As long as you have the correct function signature - you would be fine.
>
> Really?  What about c++ name mangling, and exception handling?
>

Yes, really.
Name mangling comes from function/variable types and I said "Correct 
function signature", didn't I?

Exception handling is a completely different matter. It depends on which 
CRLs were used to compile DLL and EXE. And in general exceptions should 
be restricted to inside DLL-only and EXE-only. Same problem as with 
memory management, by the way. But those problems do not depend on how 
you link EXE with DLL, you would have them in both cases.