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Re:Microsoft to C99 Developers: Use ISO C++ by jhasse on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:47PM (#3940078)
>- Binary compatibility issues between stuff compiled with gcc/mingw and stuff compiled with VS (??? Someone chime in here if I'm wrong)

If you aren't using C++, everything should work fine. I've been using C binaries from VS and mingw together without problems :)

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Re:Microsoft to C99 Developers: Use ISO C++ by excuse-me on Monday May 07, 2012 @02:42PM (#3940357)
'C' doesn't have name mangling

Mixing C++ binaries from different compilers is much trickier

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