Compiling DLLs

[Eilmsteiner Reinhard]

Hello!

I've been using g++ a lot on Linux.
But now I need to compile a MS-Windows DLL... and I have cygwin installed.

Is there a way to compile a Windows library (DLL) with g++?
Do DLLs created that way depend on cygwin? If yes, how can I get rid of 
this dependency?
How do I tell g++ (or the linker rather) to export a function from this 
DLL? Is it the old __declspec (dllexport) stuff or something similar?

Thanx,
Reinhard.