Dll compatibility between compilers

Question

Is there some way to make c++ dlls built with diffrent compilers compatible with each other? The classes can have factory methods for creation and destruction, so each compi

Answer 1

Your problem is maintaining ABI. Though same compiler but different versions you still want to maintain the ABI. COM is one way of solving it. If you really want to understand how COM solves this then check out this article CPP to COM in msdn which describes the essence of COM.

Apart from COM, there are other (one of the oldest) ways to solve ABI like using Plain old data and opaque pointers. Look at Qt/KDE library developers way of solving ABI.