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