"Mader, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - is anybody today successfully building DLLs with cygwin (not >> mingw32) and loading them from Visual Basic (or other languages)? > > I have to provide DLLs for VB and do so by using Cygwin but with > -mnocygwin, which is more or less using mingw32.
Is that relevant to the DLL creation, i.e. do you know if a DLL built without -mnocygwin (thus with cygwin) is still as usable? I have to access the serial hardware on the target and I prefer to do it the POSIX way rather than with the native API. > I have no idea. But I know about some problems regading VB in > connection with C _not_ with Cygwin. So, compiling with gcc-2 it is > usefull to use -fnative-struct (no more available/nessesary in > gcc). Because of the VB- > Structure-Conventions it could be nessesary to use -fpack-struct > together with dummy elements in the structure in question. Good to know, since I built gcc2. Not even the latter is necessary in gcc3.2, right? > The solution to problems like this I found in the MS database. > > Hope this helps, It does. Thank you very much. Question to the list: is there any documentation repository (maybe in the style of http://www.emacswiki.org) to which one could contribute notes and experiences? I use to take notes anyway and it would nice if others could benefit. Massimiliano -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
