Mixing D and C - Windows

[Mike Parker]

On 1/3/2012 10:02 AM, DNewbie wrote:
> Thank you both.
>
> I've created a D DLL [http://dlang.org/dll.html], then I've loaded it from a C program [compiled with dmc].
> However, I'd want to be able to call it from a C program compiled with MSVC, and I got a link error - unresolved external symbol [link testdll.obj /implib:mydll.lib /out:testdll-msvc.exe]. The LoadLibrary works with both DMC/MSVC, but it isn't 'handy'.?.
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That's because the object file formats used by DMC and MSVC are 
different. DMC outputs OMF, MSCV uses COFF. If you download objconv[1], 
you can use it to convert between the two formats. Something like

objconv -fcoff -nu mydll.lib mydll_mscv.lib

should do the trick.

[1] http://www.agner.org/optimize/objconv.zip