I would like to use an old msvcr71.dll when compiling Nim.
Is there a way to do so? If yes, how?
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This is explained in the manual, right here. As StackOverflow doesn't like link responses, a copy-paste:
proc imported_proc(): ReturnType
{.cdecl, dynlib: "msvcr71.dll", importc.}
This asumes there is a function in msvcf71.dll called imported_proc that you want to wrap in your Nim code without changing the name.
You can also tweak which libraries to load when compiling, as explained here:
$ nim c --dynlibOverride:msvcr71 --passL:msvcr71.dll program.nim
Didn't test any of the code, hope it helps. You can always try to find some code that does this kind of linking, for example https://github.com/khchen/wNim/blob/master/wNim/private/winimx.nim or maybe https://github.com/brentp/hts-nim/blob/master/src/hts/private/hts_concat.nim
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