[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: C Flags in Windows Binary
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:59:28 -0600
Well, if VB is the only thing that requires __stdcall it might be best
to
write a VB wrapper.
John
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:50:30AM +1000, James Teh wrote:
> On 11/02/2009 11:47 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >The best way to make the functions in the libraries in the Windows
> >binary compatible with Windows applications would be to find out what
> >gcc or MinGW flags correspond to the
> >__stdcall declarative which must be placed before functions.
> Apparently, the __stdcall decorator is used with gcc as well, so we can
> define a calltype macro somewhere and use that. We may also need to
> specify some options to the linker.
>
> Note that if we make this change, it will affect all Windows users;
> everyone will need to use stdcall. You can't have both. Python can do
> either. Nevertheless, it frustrates me that VB can't handle the C
> calling convention, so everything else has to change.
>
> Does VB require the "@xx" suffixes on function names as well? This will
> make life difficult for those using GetProcAddress (like Python does).
> It is not normally a requirement.
>
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