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Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?
From: |
Robert Collins |
Subject: |
Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL? |
Date: |
26 Oct 2002 21:03:01 +1000 |
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 08:24, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kevin Ryde wrote:
>
> > Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > Comments?
> >
> > Is it still true that global variables exported from a dll must have a
> > dllimport directive for applications? AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL would
> > perhaps indicate a package has addressed this issue (by whatever
> > means) and is therefore dll safe.
>
> While this is required by MSVC, to my knowledge, it is not required by
> Cygwin or MinGW anymore since binutils takes care of it automatically.
AFAIK, only cygwin has completely seamless support. Complex array
exports - like long long variables - won't reference properly without a
runtime fixup by the loader. Mind you, as I'm not on the mingw lists, I
may be out of date.
Rob
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Charles Wilson, 2002/10/23
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Earnie Boyd, 2002/10/25
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Charles Wilson, 2002/10/26
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Charles Wilson, 2002/10/26
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2002/10/26
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Robert Collins, 2002/10/26
- Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2002/10/27