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From: cjones@isis.cs.du.edu (Charles J. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Solution to BC++ Petzold problem, and mild bug report
Message-ID: <1991May9.151819.3190@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 15:18:19 GMT
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In article <2828D392.40DD@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> rich@wiley.uucp (Rich Messenger) writes:
>(1) When you are compiling as C++, you *cannot* use the EXPORTS section
>in the .DEF file, since the name is mangled by C++ before the linker
>ever sees it.  This tidbit is not mentioned in the documentation.

Sure you can.  But you have to change the function definition re:

long FAR PASCAL WndProc(HWND hwnd ...

becomes

extern "C" long FAR PASCAL WndProc(HWND hwnd ...

the same as always in C++ when you want ot prohibit the compiler
from mangling the name.

Charles

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