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Subject: Re: ld --auto-import for cygwin and libtool
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:17:01 +1000
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From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> >>I don't believe that this has _ever_ been supported by cygwin. Paul
> >>Sokolovsky created this hack himself.
> >>
> >
> > I'm sure binutils-20000722-1 allowed auto importing of symbols and that
was
> > broken/removed in binutils-20001029-1+.
> >
>
>
> Nope.  20000722-1 was released after dj, cgf, and I finished up a major
> round of binutils hacking.  The creation of dll's from binutils had
> completely bitrotted due to Mumit's year long absence.  We restored it.
>   But we did nothing to allow auto-importing of symbols without the need
> for __declspec() in the source code, for DATA exports.  It is true,
> however, and still IS true, that you don't REALLY need __declspec() for
> FUNCTION exports. (*)
>
> Repeat:  20000722-1 REQUIRES declspec() modifiers in the code for DATA
> exports.
>
> (*) if a dll is built with __declspec(dllexport) modifiers on functions,
> then you DO need __declspec(dllimport) modifiers to link to those
> functions in the dll.  function-auto-import only works if both dll and
> client-exe are built without decorators.  AFAIK, Paul's "auto-import"
> patch extends this behavior to DATA as well as functions -- but both DLL
> and client-exe must be built the same way, even with Paul's patch.

If nothing changed, then why exactly does this work in binutils 20000722:
char *assoc_start();

But in all binutils releases since then I have to use:
#if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined(STATIC)
__declspec(dllexport) char * __cdecl assoc_start();
#else
 char *assoc_start();
#endif

Or I symbol not defined not errors, this code uses only function exports.