Re: C++ Version 6 app using c++ version 8 dll
Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:
Don't do that. While you can mix across some kinds of DLLs, DLLs that use MFC are simply
never going to be compatible, and it won't work.
Note that your use of the word "string" is ambiguous. So it wasn't initially clear if you
meant CString, LPTSTR/LPCTSTR, or std::string, or something else?
Note that by nature VS2005 apps are Unicode, so if the issue is you have an LPCTSTR
parameter, which in VS2005 by default compiles as a 'const wchar_t *', so the linker can't
find the function for a 'const char *'. So you will either have to compile your VS6 app
in Unicode, or set VS2005 to compile a version non-Unicode. Create a configuration and
remove the UNICODE/_UNICODE options from the preprocessor symbols.
Joe:
It doesn't matter if the DLL uses MFC internally, as long as it has a C
interface using simple types (as the OP's DLL seems to have). As you
indicate, I think the real problem here is Unicode mismatch.
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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