Re: On the cost of libraries

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  First I completely agree with the need to have an explicit
declaration of symbols made extern.

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:22:20PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> The normal approach on windows is something on the order of:
> 
>  G_EXTERN void my_function_to_export ();
> 
> Rather ugly, but certainly explicit. 
> 
> (For the GTK+ libraries, we actually have separately maintained .defs
> files to keep track of exports for the Windows port - which is in no
> way good, and we need to get away from one way or the other.)

  Same for libxml/xslt they manually keep a ref file and I break
it each time I add an new API entry point :-\
  Also we had quite a bit of discussion about this and on Windows
it seems just having a single EXTERN declaration wasn't completely
sufficient (don't ask me why :-)

  All in all we need a solution to this problem, and we should have
it implemented in Gnome2. I'm waiting for a candidate solution to propose
to my Windows maintainer :-)

Daniel

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