Re: Building gdk-pixbuf loaders as static libs

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

Thanks for all the help guys. Chun-wei, you raised an interesting point....

On 02/12/2014 12:03, Fan Chun-wei wrote:
> you will see a bunch of INCLUDE_xxx's there where xxx is the module 
> that you want to build directly into your GDK-Pixbuf DLL build.

Taking 'gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c' as an example, it contains a section which 
looks like this:-

      #ifndef INCLUDE_gif
      #define MODULE_ENTRY(function) G_MODULE_EXPORT void function
      #else
      #define MODULE_ENTRY(function) void _gdk_pixbuf__gif_ ## function
      #endif

It's the same with 'io-ani.c', 'io-bmp.c', etc, etc.  Back in the 
distant past I must have mis-read the #ifndef and thought it said 
#ifdef.  So I've been building with all those #INCLUDE_xxx directives 
for years.  After a bit of testing this morning, it seems like I was 
already linking to the modules statically without realising it!!


On 02/12/2014 12:03, Fan Chun-wei wrote:
> Just wondering, is there any chance that 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739778 can be looked at so 
> that builds on Visual Studio can continue as usual?

Yes, I'd like to vote for that too.  Unless my maths has gone a bit 
wonky, I think my suggested macro should work for both positive and 
negative values.

John