Problem with coupling shared object symbol visibility with protection

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On Monday, 16 February 2015 at 20:19:27 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-02-16 10:40, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>
>> This is in fact not a breaking change because export is broken 
>> anyway.
>> Due to bug 922 export can't be used in cross platform 
>> libraries. I
>> haven't seen a single library on dub that uses export (most 
>> likely for
>> exactly that reason).
>
> Most likely due to that the support for dynamic libraries is 
> fairly new only works on Linux (?).

And the way it currently works on Linux `export` is completely 
ignored at all - hard to break something that has never worked.