Re: win32 native build

[Bart Vanherck <bvanherck maia-scientific com>]

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