I've got an application running great on Linux which uses the Interbase
API to access our Firebird database. Now I am required to port this app
to Windows.

I guess my question is, which compiler is required to do this? I have
cygwin's gcc currently running. I don't have MSVC or Borland and would
prefer to stay away from those. But if I need to, well then I need to.

If I can use cygwin (or perhaps even mingw), how can I correctly link
against fbclient.dll? I've tried but of course I've come across the
dreaded __stdcall convention issues.

So I'm either completely missing the obvious (as usual) or I just
haven't found the correct thread(s) or documentation to help out.
Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Travis