Re: [ft-devel] FreeType DLL support (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 156, Issue 12)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Sat, 13/1/18, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden> wrote:

 > Good.
> Strictly technical 
> now,https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa271769(v=vs.60).aspx
> According to this,
> dllimport/dllexport is an optimization rather than a hack.
> If gcc/clang do that regardless than it just a question of
> interoperability between compilers.

You are reading rather old info (vc6 is about 20 years old - current is 14 or 
something). It talks about optimizing for 16-bit compilers... Optimizations via 
hacks were the norm in 16-bit...

I am mostly of the opinion that since it is Microsoft compiler specific, we put 
this stuff in the Microsoft-specific places i.e. Inside the solution/project 
files.