Re: exporting classes in a DLL

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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

The class declaration header file should look something like this :-

#ifdef EXPORTSCLASS
#define EXPORTCLASS_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define EXPORTCLASS_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

class EXPORTCLASS_API CMyClass
{
public:
 //...
};

When you use this in the DLL project, define EXPORTSCLASS, but refrain from doing so in the EXE project where you call this dll.


Nishant, I tried this (exported a single method) and then run dumbin against my DLL. I find that the name of the method is mangled (as I had suspected).

Two questions:

If I declare a FAR PASCAL calling convention (i.e. declspec(export)) at the class level, do I get all the public methods exported "for free" or do I have to manually export every public method in the classes public interface?

2). If the names are mangled (ehich I suspect they will be because of the overloading etc I have in my code), can I still use the unmangled names of classes and methods in an application that links to the library?

tks

.

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