On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Gregoire Aujay wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am doing my tests with visual 2008 and mingw.
>>
>> As far as I understand a module is like a shared library that cannot be
>> linked. Instead it is dynamically loaded and then we find and use symbols
>> in it. It is like doing the linker's job manually at runtime.
>>
>> If nothing is exported from my module then I do cannot find any symbol in
>> it. Or at least I do not know how to do so.
>>
>> I modified the GenerateExportHeader module to be able to export symbols
>> from my MODULE:
>>
>> # if(${type} STREQUAL "MODULE")
>> # message(WARNING "This macro should not be used with libraries of
>> # type MODULE") return()
>> # endif()
>> if(NOT ${type} STREQUAL "STATIC_LIBRARY" AND NOT ${type} STREQUAL
>> "SHARED_LIBRARY" AND NOT ${type} STREQUAL "MODULE_LIBRARY")
>> message(WARNING "This macro can only be used with libraries")
>> return()
>> endif()
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gregoire
>>
>
> Please file a bug report so that this is not forgotten.
>
> Ideally also provide some code to test it. I'm not familiar with how plugins
> should be loaded in a cross-platform way (without Qt, that is).
>
Perhaps the BundleUtilities test can be modified to use GenerateExportHeader if
you need some coverage.
It also loads plugins at runtime (without Qt).
Clint
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