building libraries with mingw

[Ralf Habacker]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
>> Von: "Christian Ehrlicher"
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> <snip>
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>>> This may work for release libraries, but aren't there problems with msvc
>>> mixing release and/debug libraries ?
>>>       
>> Not as long as you don't pass e.g FILE or other structures which have
>> different sizes in msvc debug and release mode. 
This looks like a bad design by ms.
>> Normally a lib should never do
>> this (ok, kdewin lib is an exception)
>>     
Any library which expects for example a FILE pointer in a function or 
method signature will have this problem.
> I forgot to mention that it will also not work when you pass std::foo in a c++ lib because std::string is also different in debug and release mode... :-(
>   
One area more.
Are there other structures known which differs in size between release 
and debug version  ? This would help to estimate which areas would make 
problems.

Ralf