Hi Peter, Charles, * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:39:42PM CEST: > Den 2010-07-12 07:46 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > >* Peter Rosin wrote on Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:15:09AM CEST: > >the patch looks fairly innocent at first sight, but your description > >makes me wonder how a user is going to get that right. In fact, I don't > >see how we *can* get that right as the preferred form of linking (static > >or shared) might not yet be known at compile time at all. So I guess > >the only viable route is to document the limitation somewhere, and tell > >developers and users what to do and expect in face of it. > > This is nothing new. It is the same situation that applied to GNU on > Windows before auto-import, I think. I'm quoting this off-list > conversation with Chuck (off-list due to some misunderstanding) that > describes the situation quite well:
Thanks for reproducing this, it is quite enlightening, and I'm afraid I really had forgotten most of this again since a couple of years ago. [...] > The above implies that you need to select one way to do this universally > for "my target", but I don't think that you need to do the same everywhere. > So, I just just the method that cleared up the test case in the least > intrusive way I could think of. OK. The patch is fine with me then. > [back to Ralf's message] > > >Is that documentation step hidden somewhere in your queue already, or > >does that still need to be done? > > It is not hidden in my queue, so it is a TODO. OK. Do we need to remember it somewhere (e.g., in TODO, exept that this is hopelessly outdated)? > I didn't think the onus > was on me to write this as it has been a known issue on Windows for a > long time (I was just temporarily fooled that it was a non-issue with > MSVC when I misguidedly thought you could always dllimport with it). I didn't mean to imply that the onus is on you. Just that it needs to be done. > The manual already says that it is not portable to export data items from > a libtool library. At least I think it does. The "Library tips" nodes has a bit. Cheers, and thanks, Ralf
