Re: [Mingw-users] Calling mingw/gcc DLL from MSVC?

[Franco B. <fra...@gm...>]

Am Mon, 13 Nov 2000 schrieb Jim Mason:
>Bottom line, using a mingw/gcc generated DLL from a
>MSVC main program.
>
>   1) It is possible isnt it?  Provided all C functions and
>   appropriate struct layout in the gcc objects?

Yes.

>   2) Can someone out there say, "Yes, I've done that."

Yes, I've done that with gettext.
<http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/gettext/gettext_win32_en.html>


>   3) Are there some suggested doc links?

See MSVC online help about the link.exe command line options.
There is some way to produce an import library from a DLL. 
That's all you need. (And the appropriate header file of course.)

>  I've seen plenty
>   on going the other way (gcc main application to invocation
>   of an MSVC DLL).  Also, if we can build JNI DLLs, is that
>   not the moral equivalent of what I'm trying to do - just
>   without having to build and link the client side?

Never tried Java - don't know.

>I sent a longer message on this a couple of days ago, but I
>guess it was insufficiently exciting ("DLL/C++ Cross-compile
>questions" on 11/9).  I would still appreciate a response
>to that and/or this.
>
>Thanks all!

Ciao, 
  Franco