[openvrml-develop] OpenVRML as a Windows DLL (or not)

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

It appears that building libopenvrml as a Windows DLL is not workable.
Though Windows' issues with STL template instances as members of
exported classes can be worked around, the fact that OpenVRML has
classes in its API (and thus need to be exported from the DLL) that
inherit C++ standard library classes presents a problem that I do not
think can be circumvented. The standard library classes that get used as
bases are not exported from any Windows runtime DLL. I don't think this
problem could be fixed in OpenVRML without changing the API in ways I'm
not fond of.

In light of this, I intend to get rid of the OPENVRML_SCOPE macro that
was designed to apply the dllimport/dllexport stuff.

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