From: willer@sq.com (Steve Willer) Subject: RE: Problems building DLLs with cygwin 6 Dec 1996 07:17:57 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: Colin Peters Original-cc: "'David Essex'" , "'GNU-Win32'" , "'W.Derks@nl.cis.philips.com'" In-Reply-To: <01BBE37E.13408300@gbird0.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp> X-X-Sender: willer@sqarc.sq.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Colin Peters wrote: > One place which it's fairly certain this will not work is with C++, since every > compiler does different name mangling. Unless you use extern "C". However, I think that Borland implements exception-handling code in their C++ DLL functions, and you need to override this behavior with a special .obj file to make your DLL work right with programs compiled with other compilers (a lowest common denominator approach). - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".