DLLs and friends

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 24.11.2012 22:20, schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
> On Saturday, November 24, 2012 21:45:51 David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 20:08:10 UTC, Ellery Newcomer
>>
>> wrote:
>>> with dmd on linux, apparently __declspec(dllexport) <->
>>> [nothing]. Noticed this when trying to link to the python c
>>> api. But it could just be python isn't using dllexport.
>>
>> There is no such thing as dllimport/dllexport on Linux,
>> everything is "public" by default. See
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility for a description of a
>> mechanism for hiding symbols on Linux/GCC.
>
> And thank goodness for that. The existence of export is my number one
> complaint about Windows programming. I am so sick and tired of running into
> compilation issues due to it that it's not even funny. Linux's shared library
> model is _so_ much better than Windows' model, and that's only one of the
> reasons why.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

Funny I prefer the private by default way of Windows, and Aix may I add.

But I started developing for Windows 3.1 back in the day, while watching 
some friends do Amiga 500 coding, and only later on discovered the ways 
of UNIX.


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Paulo