Re: Linking vs. a *.lib-file on windows (cygwin / MinGW)

[Lars Uffmann]

Hi Andre,

Andre Poenitz wrote:
> Poking into the dark: Do the C headers have something like 'extern "C"'
> mentioned somewhere?

Nope, instead they had _stdcall - however, in the end I managed to solve 
my issue by loading the actual DLL at runtime, and extracting the 
function pointer out of that.

> A C++ compiler typically "mangles" the function names it enconters, so
> the linker might not be able to match them with the symbols from the
> library.

And the function names are not mangled, luckily. Works like a charm now :)

Thanks for your reply anyways!

  Lars