Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX

[Henri Lesourd]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

> Henri Lesourd wrote:
>
> > You need to be able to capture this information in
> > the makefile. This is not infeasible, but still it's
> > one more thing to do.
>
>
> No, I think you can probe the ABI of the dll at runtime.
Wow ! How ?


> > As far as I know, e.g. under Windows, you can compile
> > a DLL with *ANY* compiler, and it is always supposed
> > to be loadeable an callable without any problems.
>
>
> I don't think this is as easy as that, see below.
In case of C DLLs under Windows, I never heard about any
inter-compiler compatibility problems, ever.


> Yes, you are partly wrong: The C ABI has changed between MSVC 6 and 7. 
> Mingw still uses the old ABI AFAIK.
Aha. The more you learn, the more you discover
all this is a mess, it seems...

Schnell, a beer and a new football match, to put
an end to this disappointment ;-)...