Re: win32 native build

Bart Vanherck <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:35:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.orbit.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> It seems to work, at least for function calls. The data structures remain
>> still unresolved.
>>     
>
> I think that must be because the corresponding declarations in the
> headers don't have the __declspec(dllimport) attributes. gcc can
> manage without, MSVC can't.
>
>   
>> My linkage gives unresolved for this (DATA) symbols. The solution was that I
>> just needed to remove "DATA" before building the lib file. But my little
>> test program links now.
>>     
>
> But it is probable that actual use of these variables without MSVC
> knowing that they are actually imported from a DLL produces bogus
> results or even crashes? Does the program actually work?
>
> --tml
>
>   
True, the simple hello world application crached when I runned them. I 
know now that the solution is try to build the lib with MVC and patch it 
to export the variables and functions and so on ...

Bart