On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:24:19AM +0200, Tomer Zekharya wrote: > Hi > > First I want to state that I'm using Cygwin (and VC++) for less than a week. > > I want to port a certain group of libraries from UNIX to windows. I managed to > compile and link it using cygwin, but the Windows applications that needs these libs > are MFC based, so I can't compile them in cygwin (at least that's what I understood > from searching through the web and through the cygwin mailing list). > I tried doing the opposite: compile the UNIX code to DLLs using cygwin, and trying > to link to them in VC++, but I get all kind of errors. After compiling the DLLs as > described in the "Building DLLs" section in the Cygwin manual, I get the following > message when linking in VC++: > > warning LNK4078: multiple ".text" sections found with different attributes (E0000020) > > And my application crashes on some kind of memory fault. > > Since I'm new to this world of cygwin and VC++, I don't really know if I made a > mistake in the cygwin side or the VC++ side. If anyone has successfully compiled MFC > based applications linking against cygwin-based DLLs, I'll be more than happy to > hear how he/she did it.
You can't do this AFAIK - the binary formats are incompatible. And this does make migration from VC++ to cygwin difficult, IMO. However I believe that open-source Watcom supports VC6 style DLLs, you might want to try using Watcom to build cygwin libs and projects. Anyone done that, BTW? Ed -- 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/
