Re: [Mingw-users] Using mscv dlls containig c++ classes in mingw

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Mathias Tausig <mtausig@xxxxxxxx>:

>> Mathias Tausig wrote:
>>
>>> I always get undefined references for every single
>>> function I use, expect for pure C function defined in the header as
>>> 'extern "C" ', but not for anything using c++.
>>
>> This is by design.  It's not supposed to work.  The two compilers are
>> only compatible at the C level, they use different C++ ABIs.  This is
>> true of most C++ compilers, in fact even different versions of g++ can
>> have different ABIs.  When dealing with C++, everything has to be built
>> with the same tools, more or less.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>
> Damn, that's bad.
> Thank you still, at least I know that I don't have to dig any farther.
>

Don't despair needlessly. ;)  Use C wrappers.  See 
http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/MixingCompilers


Earnie

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