DIP45: fixing the dllimport/dllexport issue

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Sat Sep 7 22:56:45 PDT 2013



On 07.09.2013 14:47, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> I propose that we add a command-line-paramter to the compiler (windows
> only) which actually enables dllexport. So all behavior described in the
> DIP will be enabled by default, but to actually make it mark symbols
> with dllexport you have to specifiy a additional command-line-parameter.
> We could call it "-dll" or something.

I don't think the issue is Windows specific, symbol visibility in the 
GNU toolchain is also bound to the declaration. I remember seeing public 
(visibility=default) symbols exported from static libraries on OSX.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list