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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Using Gnat.Sockets in a Windows DLL
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:39:11 +0100
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:56:55 -0800 (PST), ahlan@marriott.org wrote:

> We have windows programs and DLLs that use the Windows WinSock API directly.
> I recognize many of them as being in WS2_32.dll - which GprBuild finds
> when we build our programs (its in Windows/System32)

Yes

> Except that the names are not quite right so I suspect that this is the
> root cause of the problem.

The names are right, WinSock2 has stdcall conventions and names.

> Has anyone any idea why a build of a DLL should behave differently to a
> build of a program with respect to name mangling?

It should not. You link to libws2_32.a import library, which comes with
GNAT distribution.

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