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Re: More Info
At 06:10 PM 5/3/2004, you wrote:
>Judd schrieb:
>>Oh I know. This is the Windows PC version (should have stated that
>>earlier). OpenInventor has a freeware Linux version and a Windows PC
>>version distributed by TGS. The version I'm using is the Windows PC version
>>which has libraries that work with Visual C++. I just don't know if Cygwin
>>can use VC++ type library binaries. I don't recall the format of Visual C++
>>objects anymore (OMT?). It's a been a bit.
>>
>>>>I have a feeling they work with isual C++ and their object format.
>>>>Can the g++ linker in Cygwin work with Visual C++ object libraries?
>
>Generally not, only if they provided their libs as extern "C".
>
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC103
>
>And Google for "cygwin g++ msvc link +site:cygwin.com"
Right. I just looked up OpenInventor and it is a C++ library. So linking
against the Visual C++ libraries won't work. Looks like you'll need to
build a Cygwin version first.
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