Hin-Tak: You don't have to be rude to people. It's ok to be wrong. Stick to
the technical point. Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 13/1/18, Martin Gieseking <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  > Not really.
>  > dllexport/dllimport is platform- and not
>  > compiler-specific.
>  > GCC and Clang on MinGW
>  > also support them to declare the symbols that are
>  > supposed to be exported by the DLL and adapt
>  > the symbol names
>  > accordingly. In order to
>  > create/access DLLs through this mechanism
>  > across compilers, the declarations should be
>  > added independently from
>  > the compiler.
>
> You don't know what you are talking about. Do you actually use mingw to
> build Freetype at all? I do. I have been building Freetype dll very
> regularly with the mingw toolchain for a couple of years. The Fontval
> windows backend is a Freetype dll. Does not need those header hacks. Those
> hacks are only needed for use with Microsoft compilers.
>
>
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