Re: On the cost of libraries

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 10:43, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
>   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 :-)
> 
on windows, as far as I remember, you need to use a .def file where you
list all exported symbols. Symbols that are not listed in that file are
not exported at all.

cheers
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