[omniORB] Compiling an application on Win NT using gcc

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 21 June, Reiner Beck wrote:

> I am porting an application from Linux to Win NT 4.0/SR 6 and try to
> re-use my gnu environment including the gcc compiler. (I don't want to
> change my existing kdevelop project (based on autoconf/automake/gcc ..)
> into a MSVC++ Project.)

You most definitely cannot use the binaries we distribute with gcc.
The C++ ABIs are totally different between VC++ and gcc. You could, in
theory, compile the whole of omniORB with gcc on Windows, but I
believe there are some issues preventing it.

Sorry,

Duncan.

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