Re: Building Windows Server Extensions Using VC++ 2005

Charlie Savage wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. The reason for building extensions with MSVC
> on windows is to get access to the Micrsoft debugging tools since as far
> as I can see MingW/GDB cannot debug dynamically loaded dlls on the
> Windows platform (or at least I haven't succeeded at doing it).
>
> Anyway, with the few minor tweaks mentioned this seems to work fine. I
> guess I would be surprised if it didn't since MinGW is commonly used for
> both creating and using DLLs on the Windows platform that integrate with
> programs and dlls built with VC++. Other examples that work fine are
> building extensions for Python and Ruby using MingW, when both runtimes
> are built with VC++ (so the opposite case). Of course, this
> compatibility might just be limited to the MinGW / VC++ combination, but
> that's all you need for this to work.

OK, I improved the STRINGS_H macro check and added DLLIMPORT in case
Win32 users don't export everything. Added comments. This is all 8.2
stuff.

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