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I'm dumping MingW to the side for the time being. Couldn't get it to work, so back to MSVC++ 2010 Express.

I got old or modified version of fwh sources in myfunc.lib which always got linked before fwh libs. What got me mystified is it always linked-in objects from FWH libs instead of mine. Why and how to solve this?

TIA

p.s. Found similar post on Harbour's mailing list

Hua,

Please place a "extern ClassName, ..." at the beginning of your main app PRG, this should be enough to require the linker to use your libs Classes instead of the ones required from FWH itself.

Usually this happens when a linker links based on requirements (external references) instead of the availability order

I see, thanks Antonio. That's new to me as I've never used anything other than BCC before . I'll get back to playing with MingW and MSVC later. Trying to understand hbmk2 now as it seems very useful.

Is there no alternative apart from declaring 'external'?. Is it the same with MingW as I would much prefer using MingW than MSVC.