On Sep 26, 2014, at 7:17 PM, Fan Chun-wei <fanc...@yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
> > Hi, > > This situation would have been hit by GLib and GTK+, if not done properly, as > they use things like _GLIB_EXTERN (for glib, gobject, gio) and _GDK_EXTERN > (for GDK, gtk) and they also export public variables (data)--but they build > and link just fine. In fact the work on using __declspec(dllexport) for ATK > is modeled on them. There is a ATK_VAR macro that is used to export (and > import using __declspec(dllimport) the public variables, for example, and > similar macros are used in GLib and GTK+, since the days of using > .symbols/.def files. > > It might be worth it to see whether we can use __declspec(dllimport) for the > functions as well for better efficiency, though, but this would be something > we can look into a bit later. For the -mm libraries though, I think it might > be good if we use dllimport and dllexport all around, rather than using > gendef that makes use of dumpbin, as many other symbols are exported > unnecessarily during the process. Sounds like something that should be in GLib, G_EXTERN. Oddly, there isn't one already. Regards, John Ralls
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