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[Mihail121]

Hi! Does anyone have any idea how to use CG with MinGW or is it better to switch to GLSL?

Thanks!

[Groove]

There isn't special things to do, just link with the common cg.lib you use with Visual Studio.

[Reedbeta]

But MinGW uses a different library format than Visual Studio, doesn't it?

[geon]

No. Borland has it's own format, but MinGW and VS use the same.

[Groove]

Nearly the same. All C libraries compiled with Visual C++ work fine under MinGW but it's not always the same with C++ library. Also, if you compile a library with MinGW, Visual C++ will not accept it.

[Reedbeta]

Yeah, name mangling differences will still prevent C++ libraries from being interchanged unless you use some utility to convert the mangling format.