Re: What does "(skip)" mean ???

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 16/04/2017 19:25, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> It's a GObject Introspection annotation !!!
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations

Thanks Sébastien,

I can't claim to understand it all but it seems like GObject 
Introspection is a way of compiling modules with one language such that 
they can be used by some different language.  If I use "dumpbin 
/EXPORTS" on my built DLL, I see these entries:-

        755  2F2 00002680 g_mkstemp = @ILT+5755(_g_mkstemp)
        756  2F3 0000132A g_mkstemp_full = @ILT+805(_g_mkstemp_full)
        757  2F4 00001870 g_mkstemp_utf8 = @ILT+2155(_g_mkstemp_utf8)

so all three functions are getting exported - BUT - if I examine the 
corresponding link lib, I can see a reference to g_mkstemp_full(). I can 
also see a reference to g_mkstemp_utf8().  But there's no reference to 
g_mkstemp().  In other words, although that function does get exported 
from the DLL, the accompanying link lib doesn't seem to know about it.  
I've never seen anything like that before but I'm guessing (maybe 
wrongly) it wouldn't have anything to do with Introspection??

I've also discovered that if I revert the changes from commit 
#d1528402,it fixes the problem for g_mkstemp().  So I'm assuming that if 
I reverted Christoph's other changes from that time, it'd fix the other 
problems I'm seeing with g_getenv() etc.

Should I transfer this discussion to bugzilla here:-

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780634

Also - has anyone else managed to build this successfully with MSVC?  
Maybe there's a new #define somewhere that I need to know about?

Thanks, John