Re: [Libvisual-devel] Making DLLs using mingw

[Duilio J. P. <dp...@fc...>]

Why this will be a disaster? EXPORT is defined by mingw? 
If it is not, you just must define EXPORT to the corresponding thing
when building on mingw, or define to empty when not.


Bye,
Duilio.

> Heya reading the mingw docs, I keep across this:
> 
> http://mingw.sourceforge.net/docs.shtml
> 
> 
> Here's an example. Cut and paste the following into a file named
> dllfct.h: 
> 
>    #ifdef BUILD_DLL
>    // the dll exports
>    #define EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
>    #else
>    // the exe imports
>    #define EXPORT __declspec(dllimport)
>    #endif
> 
>    // function to be imported/exported
>    EXPORT void tstfunc (void);
>                
> 
> Cut and paste the following into a file named dllfct.c: 
> 
>    #include <stdio.h>
>    #include "dllfct.h"
> 
>    EXPORT void tstfunc (void)
>    {
>       printf ("Hello\n");
>    }
>                
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This makes me nearly sick :), is there a way to get around this ?, because
> this would be a complete disaster within libvisual :)