"Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.
Tried that... talk about a major pain (more compilation problems than you can shake a stick at). I guess I'll be rewriting the code for a standard Win32 environment. What a drag! Thank you all again! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
