Re: EasyDiff - failure to build on windows

[Wolfgang Lux]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> To me this looks like the exports are missing or wrong for some strings used 
>> as notification names. No idea whether this is in GNUstep or in you 
>> application code but it should be easy to fix once you found the definition 
>> of these strings.
>> 
> "grep" is always your friend in foreign code...
> 
> FileIconView.h, local to the project, defines:
> 
> APPKIT_EXPORT NSString *FileIconViewFileNameDidChangeNotification;
> 
> in the corresponding FileIconView.m file, there is:
> NSString *FileIconViewFileNameDidChangeNotification =
>  @"FileIconViewFileNameDidChangeNotification";
> 
> I don't know APPKIT_EXPORT, but it is used in AppKit itself.
> 
> DiffFileChooser.m where I am getting the error, regularly imports 
> FileIconView.h
> 
> What could be wrong? It must me something windows specific, where the linker 
> is more strict, since on Unix it works.

I guess you should change APPKIT_EXPORT into extern. The APPKIT_EXPORT macro is 
designed to add the right attributes to an export declaration when exporting a 
symbol from a DLL.

Wolfgang