RE: building dll on Solaris with the use of gnu-cross-compiler!

RE: building dll on Solaris with the use of gnu-cross-compiler!

[Rupert Wood]

Johan Fredriksson wrote:

> I'm trying to build a dll on the solaris platform with use of
> gcc-cross-compiler and cygwin. The problem is that if I use WINAPI
> when I create my dll-entry-point, as I should according to cygwin,
> the compiler or linker is not able to interpret windows.h.

Can you elaborate on this a little? What do you mean not able to
interpret? What error or warning to do you see?

WINAPI specifies the calling convention of the procedure; DLL-exported
functions should use the 'Pascal' convention that the callee cleans up
arguments passed, as opposed to the usual C convention that the caller
is responsible instead. The Microsoft keyword for this is (and what
WINAPI is #defined to in the Microsoft headers) is '__stdcall', which
cygwin/mingw GCC does support via the specs file and GCC's __attribute__
mechanism.

Rup.

building dll on Solaris with the use of gnu-cross-compiler!

[Fredriksson, Johan]

I'm trying to build a dll on the solaris platform with use of
gcc-cross-compiler and cygwin.
The problem is that if I use WINAPI when I create my dll-entry-point, 
as I should according to cygwin, the compiler or linker is not able to
interpret windows.h. 
In the second atemt I created i an Entry-point without 
using WINAPI...just a function returning int.
But when I use that I can't reach any of the functions inside my dll. 

My questions are:

1.Am I not able to use gcc-cross-compiler and cygwin to build a dll on the
solaris platform?

2. Why am I forced to use WINAPI when I create my Entry-point? All the
examples I've seen use that?

Regards
Johan Fredriksson
Sweden