Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> Are __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec(dllimport) really needed in
> the OpenSSL library (see e_os2.h)? From the reading I've done, it
> seems it's not needed when you use a .def file, which we do.
>
> This was discussed some time ago, but I'm not sure we came to a
> conclusion...
>
I did a few tests which suggest you definitely need
__declspec(dllimport) to access global variables in DLLs but not for
functions. Though it has been pointed out that it may produce more
efficient code: I haven't tried that though.
Steve.
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