Re: [Mingw-users] Can I use DLL's made with VStudio within MinGW DLLs?

[Paul G. <pga...@te...>]

On 10 Jan 2001, at 21:34, the Illustrious Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Paul Garceau writes:
>  > Far better to rebuild all of your .dlls with either one or the
>  > other toolset.  Trying to build something that uses both
>  during > runtime is, imho, an invitation to disaster.
> 
> Umm, for C++ code of course as the name mangling and ABI is
> different.

> But surely, for C code, gcc with -fnative-struct
> and using the msvcrt.dll C runtime, and MSVC (cl -MD)
> produce totally compatible code? My experience is that an
> executable built with gcc can use DLLs built with MSVC, and
> vice versa, without problems.

	Correct!  However, the poster was specifically asking about 
msvc++ as I recall:

	
> -- DapDesign <co...@da...> wrote: 
> Well, that was the
> question. > > A little more explained: > > I want to make a DLL
> using Microsoft VStudio 6.0 (using C++)....

 > This DLL has classes...

> and functions that are needed by another DLL, > which I would
> like to make using MinGW (please don't ask me why).
> 

	Of course, my personal opinion is clearly biased ;-) since I've 
been using gcc/g++ since before Colin Peters put together his 
first minimalist gnu-win32 app and subsequently made it 
available on the net...

	Peace,

		Paul G.
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