Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] Determine Woe32 C symbol prefix at configure time.

[B. Scott Michel]

On 12/27/2012 5:49 PM, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> "B. Scott Michel" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The better fix is to __not__ manually mangle the symbols with the
>> "magic" IMP macro. Instead, the library should support symbol
>> visibility, such as dllexport()/dllimport() for WinXX platforms and
>> _attribute_ ((visibility("hidden"))) for Linux ELF. The "brain damage"
>> for WinXX is that while building the library, dllexport() has to be in
>> force, whereas during linking, dllimport() has to be in force. Similarly
>> for Linux.
> Actually, gettext does use dllexport/dllimport in the header files
> through DLL_VARIABLE macro.  The use of IMP macro is to maintain the
> export list (see the comments in gettext-tools/woe32dll/export.h).  Do
> you mean it is possible to define the export list with a standard way?
export.h is inherently non-maintainable. Granted that the entire process
of DLL import/export is a pain, but better that it should be done via
preprocessor hacks than generating inline assembly code.

The patch isn't small and prototype code would be a righteous pain to
generate at this point. I'll consider my various options before posting.