On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 08:24, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kevin Ryde wrote: > > > Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Comments? > > > > Is it still true that global variables exported from a dll must have a > > dllimport directive for applications? AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL would > > perhaps indicate a package has addressed this issue (by whatever > > means) and is therefore dll safe. > > While this is required by MSVC, to my knowledge, it is not required by > Cygwin or MinGW anymore since binutils takes care of it automatically.
AFAIK, only cygwin has completely seamless support. Complex array exports - like long long variables - won't reference properly without a runtime fixup by the loader. Mind you, as I'm not on the mingw lists, I may be out of date. Rob _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
