Visual C++ - Linking plugin DLL against EXE?

Question

I\'m in the process of porting a large C++ application from Linux (gcc) to Windows (Visual C++ 2008) and am having linker issues with plugins. On Linux this wasn\'t an issue, as

Answer 1

You can't, easily. The windows loader isn't designed to export symbols out of an EXE and bind them to symbols in a DLL.

One pattern that I have seen is the DLL export a certain function that the EXE calls. It takes as a parameter a structure which contains addresses of functions in the EXE for the DLL to call.