Re: Building Mozilla under GCC/free compiler on Win32

[Rick Parrish]

Having one component linked against one vendor's run time library and
another component linked against yet another vendor's run time library
could make life interesting. Yeah, I know NSPR is supposed to protect
us from this but I'd be much more comfortable supporting an installation
whose pieces were all built with the same compiler.

Beyond that everything should work since XPCOM is interface based
and requires DLLs to export a small number of C functions. As Ari
points out, everything else is pointers and vtables so there's nothing for a
linker/loader to resolve.

Ari Heitner wrote:

> Isn't the point of COM (and XPCOM) to avoid this nonsense?
>
> It should work just fine, since all objects in mozilla are XPCOM objects.
>
> ari