Re: [Plplot-devel] dll hell

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi,

I forgot to mention, that for the examples or your own programs it's 
much easier, only USINGDLL needs to be defined. No need to define a 
macro for all dlls included.

Regards,
Werner

Werner Smekal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> sorry for the lot of cvs commits ;). I made a lot of changes regarding 
> the dll problematic, since Arjen told me about the problem, that if a 
> dll is compiled which uses another dll a MAKINGDLL will make trouble 
> since you use and make a dll at the same time. The solution is to make 
> these macro definitions more "granular". Nearly any dll has now it's own 
> macros MAKING??DLL and USING??DLL and everything can be fine tuned now, 
> e.g. the plplot library is now be built with -DMAKINGPLDLL -DUSINGNNDLL 
> -DUSINGCSADLL. Also csa library is now own its again, i.e. doesn't use 
> any header file from plplot any more. So for other dlls copy pldll.h to 
> a proper directory an rename the PL to something different.
> 
> I also made some changes to the nn library, it also exports now some 
> functions to a dll and nan.h has now the same definitions as nan.h from 
> the csa library. This completes now the qhull support for visual c++.
> 
> Everything tested on windows, but Linux shouldn't be affected actually.
> 
> Regards,
> Werner
> 


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