----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Hintermüller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <aspell-devel@gnu.org> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [aspell-devel] What needs to be done for next release?
> Hi > Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2005 08:09 schrieb Kevin Atkinson: > > > > Well a lot of C API code is generated so it will be necessary to modify > > the mk-src script. I will not accept a patch that only modifies the > > generated files. Perhaps it will be best to describe the changes needed > > and let me modify the script and send you a patch to try. > > > Are you talking about the __declspec(import/export) stuff. If not so forget > this mail. > > Looking into other project i'm on which have to deal with differences between > linux/unix and windows solved the API import export stuff by providing an API > headerfile which looks like as follows > -----------------------snip------------------------- > #ifndef ASPELL_WIN_DLL_API_H > #define ASPELL_WIN_DLL_API_H > > #ifdef _WIN32 > # ifdef ASPELL_EXPORTS > # define ASPELL_API __declspec(dllexport) > # else > # define ASPELL_API __declspec(dllimport) > # endif > #else > # define ASPELL_API > #endif > > #endif > > ------------------------snip----------------------------- > This file is included by all header files directly contributing to the API > and the class and function definitions which are part of the API look like as > follows. > > class ASPELL_API classname : ..... > ASPELL_API void somemfunc > > > This solution would imho be the easiest to implement within automatic > generation as the api code generator only has to properly add the ASPELL_API > macro to the entire function and class definitions. And in addition to that > the above AspellAPI has to be generated. Which can be hardcoded. > > The only thing to determine is if it suffices to define the ASPELL_API macro > only if aspell itself is built or not or more logic it would be to define it > unless aspell is built when looking at __declspec(import) and > __declspec(export)? > cu > Xris Hi Chris, Keep in mind that you can choose to make the aspell lib as a static lib, in which case ASPELL_API should be null. Other then that I agree with what you said. Gary _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
