Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E8805AA.9060000@niles.de> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:08:58 +0200 From: "Mader, Alexander" Organization: NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Massimiliano Mirra Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Building DLLs to be loaded from Visual Basic References: <87pto76fcf.fsf@prism.localnet> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20011031 Hallo, Massimiliano Mirra schrieb: > My questions: > > - is anybody today successfully building DLLs with cygwin (not > mingw32) and loading them from Visual Basic (or other languages)? I have to provide DLLs for VB and do so by using Cygwin but with -mnocygwin, which is more or less using mingw32. Anyway, I proceed this way in order to limit the library dependencies to native MS ones. > - is documentation about the process available? I have no idea. But I know about some problems regading VB in connection with C _not_ with Cygwin. So, compiling with gcc-2 it is usefull to use -fnative-struct (no more available/nessesary in gcc). Because of the VB- Structure-Conventions it could be nessesary to use -fpack-struct together with dummy elements in the structure in question. The solution to problems like this I found in the MS database. Hope this helps, Alexander. -- Alexander Mader Fon: +49-30-93033-636 NILES Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH Fax: +49-30-93033-603 www.niles.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/