DIP45: fixing the dllimport/dllexport issue

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 19.09.2013 13:58, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 12.09.2013 07:54, schrieb Rainer Schuetze:
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>> This sounds interesting. Stripping an existing library isn't even needed
>> because it is normally never created with exports anyway (-lib implies
>> that no exports are created to start with). Stripping object files might
>> be necessary, though, in case they have been built separately with -c.
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> Can't we get around stripping object files by always using -c together
> with -lib in case the object file is supposed to go into a static library?

That could work, though it has it's own set of side effects, like 
splitting a module into pseudo modules per function which also ruins 
running unittests built into the library. Building modules with -c and 
combining these into a library afterwards avoids this.