masta uy wrote: > I am in working on porting some code to cygwin but I am stuck. I need it to > be compiled as a dll but gcc gives me a linking error.
In short, you have to declare num as __declspec(dllimport) if it refers to a variable in another module. See <http://www.haible.de/bruno/woe32dll.html> for a thorough explanation of all the differences between PE and ELF shared libraries, and the various workarounds to cope with them. > Interestingly, the code above does work on my ubuntu installation (ubuntu > 7.10 gcc 4.1.3) These are different platforms, and shared libraries work differently. Brian -- 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/
