Re: [libcvd-members] libcvd cvd/convolution.h cvd/cpu_hacks.hcvd/di...

[Edward Rosten]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Georg Klein wrote:

> Edward Rosten wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Gerhard Reitmayr wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > Let me know, if you have any problems with any of these changes. I
> > > will try to fix them ASAP. I am going to use this over the summer
> > > for some Linux/OSX/Win32 cross platform development, hopefully this
> > > will make it stable and useful.
> >
> > I don't know if this is helpful, but you can link mingw compiled stuff
> > against normal windows stuff. That's why libCVD supports mingw at the
> > moment. That said, I ported it, but I didn't do any of the other work
> > on Windows.
>
> An advantage of using VC2005 is that you can compile in Directshow input 
> stuff; trying to do that in Cygwin is a nightmare. Also, although C libraries 
> and objects can be mixed and matched between the different compilers, the C++ 
> ABIs are incompatible (at least for g++ in cygwin, dunno about MinGW) so I 
> think for windows development there's no option but to use VC.

Now you come to mention it, I think this also the case for MingW. I think 
the other guy was using C wrappers, since the rest of the program was 
interfaced via C (it was a python program). So it avoided the C++ ABI.

-Ed