Re: Gtk port to Win32 "progress report"

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> 
> > > Would it be easier just to list all exported functions in the DLL DEF
> > > file when the DLL is linked? This is also used to generate the import
> > > library.
> > 
> > Well, yes, but I think the current trend is to avoid .def files as
> > much as possible? Keeping the list of exports in a .def file
> > up-to-date would be a pain, wouldnn't it?
> 
> hm, i'd volounteer to hack a compiler frontend that will generate
> the required windows header, but maybe owen wants to tackle this
> with some perl magic? ;)

Hmmm, how would this work? I think you would have to mark the
relevant symbols in the header files with some token for the
perl script to look for, maybesomething like:
 
 GLIBAPI void some_func()

;-)

So I'm not sure that approach is worth pursuing. And I think
the compiler-frontend idea is worse - I think we should try
to stick to standard tools. So I tend to think that Tor's
approach is a decent one.

Regards,
                                        Owen