Re: [libvirt] Fedora MinGW - need for *.def files

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:34:51AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:23:15AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > [This is just a FYI ...] > > > > Upstream binutils or gcc changed the default way that symbols are > > exported for cross-compiled (Fedora MinGW) DLLs. Previously all > > symbols were exported. Now they are only exported if they are > > explicitly listed in a *.def file. > > > > There are two ways that libvirt could be changed to do the right > > thing here. > > > Or create a *.def file. It looks like: > > > > LIBRARY libvirt.dll > > DESCRIPTION "libvirt foo blah" > > EXPORTS > > <<list of symbol names, one per line>> > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d91k01sh%28VS.80%29.aspx > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/28d6s79h%28VS.80%29.aspx > > > > The LIBRARY and DESCRIPTION lines are optional. > > This method sounds appealing to me - we could likely auto-generate > this file from the master src/libvirt_public.syms file we already > have for Linux/Solaris yup, Rich how urgent is that ? maybe we should try to fix this for 0.7.3 (I'm also wondering why I didn't see this for libxml2/libxslt)