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Re: Building cpan module that links with proprietary libs
- From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>
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- Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 10:01:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: Building cpan module that links with proprietary libs
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 5/29/2014 6:42 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> As a
>> result, you will never get code compiled with g++ to link with these
>> libraries. There is no common ABI among C++ compilers. Thus, the
>> libraries
>> and headers of one can't be used as input to the compiler of another, even
>> on the same platform. This only works for C code. So you have to either
>> build the proprietary libs with Cygwin's C++ compiler or write your own
>> "shim" library that wraps the necessary calls and objects in a C API,
>> compile that with VS, and link your program against the APIs in your
>> library.
@Larry: Would this work? I think MSVC produces obj and lib files in
COFF; can Cygwin's toolchain understand that?
>
> Being as this code is proprietary I doubt that Perforce will release it to
> me to compile but I will point them at this thread...'
Maybe you can convince them to build a Cygwin version (not very likely).
Csaba
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