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Re: Problem linking cygwin dll with MSVC application
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:46:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: Problem linking cygwin dll with MSVC application
- References: <cf97vl$brl$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:22:01PM -0400, Mirko wrote:
>I understand that I may be mis-using Cygwin. I am thus considering to
>do the compilation and dll creation using MinGW, because, as I
>understand it, that package is meant for program development on the MS
>platform. However, I am not certain as how to create a DLL in MinGW
>that is compatible with software compiled with MS' compiler. I posted a
>such a question on the MinGW list.
>
>Any suggestions or pointers to documentation?
If you don't need the UNIX-like utilities of cygwin, then you definitely
should be using MinGW for your efforts. There really is very little
difference between building dlls using MinGW and Cygwin.
And, of course, MinGW questions belong on the mingw mailing list, as you
know.
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