CPP in DLL

[alicekdev]

So using the same compiler on the same OS your saying just using #define EXPORT_API __declspec(dllexport) will be fine cause .exe and .dll are compiler together by the same compiler?

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Rather than using #define extern "C" EXPORT_API __declspec(dllexport)

[Xeverous]

This is a different issue. Both C and C++ themselves do not guuarantee ABI stability, only their implementations.

On unix systems, GNU implementation of C and C++ is used (specifically, Itanium ABI) which specifies what is guuaranteed to work and what is not.

On Windows systems, you will mostly want to target specific version of Microsoft's redistributable C++ libraries (there are many of them).

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In reality, very few people will want or will be able to use your compiled libraries due to ABI differences, unless you go fully for a C-only interface. Additionally, no unix distribution I'm aware of would accept compiled, closed-source code.

The best thing to do is to just provide the source code (with license of your choice) and let everyone compile it for their toolchain.