Re: mkoctfile problem

[Ronan Scaife]

Dear all,

many years ago I faced the same problem with one particular MSVC DLL; 
for the "dlportio" universal driver shim, but found out how to do it 
with essentially any MSVC dll and MinGW32 C code.

The short version; mingw32 certainly *used* to be able to take a 
MSVC-compiled dll and work out how to link to it *without* needing an 
import library.

The www page I created to describe it is (sorry!) a bit out of date, but 
may still be useful:

<http://elm.eeng.dcu.ie/~scaifer/win2k-dlportio-mingw/DLPORTIOandWIN2KandMinGW32.html>

Best Wishes,

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Allahyari Rahim <address@hidden> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > In my directory  "C:\CPLUSPLUS\MyDLL2\Debug"  subsist all this files
> >
> >
> >
> > MyDLL2.obj
> >
> > MyDLL2.dll
> >
> > MyDLL2.lib
>
> So basically, you want to mix MSVC and MinGW compiled code. As long
> as it's C code and it's not using __stdcall calling convention, this
> should be fine.
> However, I'm not sure that MinGW can deal directly with import lib files
> generated by MSVC. What you can try is
>
> mkoctfile -c TWUsetUserAgent.cc
> mkoctfile -o TWUsetUserAgent.oct TWUsetUserAgent.o
> C:/CPLUSPLUS/MyDLL2/Debug/MyDLL2.lib
>
> Michael.


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