Jason Tishler writes:
> > Seems like that's heading in the wrong direction. Isn't there a
> > compiler switch or something we could give to make ALL global vars be
> > automatically marked DLLIMPORT? That's generally how it works on Unix
> > platforms (for example, on HPUX the -E linker switch makes these symbols
> > available to dynamically linked shlibs).
>
> There is a way and the PostgreSQL build is already taking advantage of
> it:
>
> dlltool --export-all --output-def postgres.def access/SUBSYS.o ...
>
> However, there is a downside to the above. Now all functions and global
> variables are exported from postgres.exe -- not just the ones that make
> sense.
That's the same across all platforms though. "Sense" is something the
user can find out about.
> Unfortunately, the above still does not mitigate the need for marking
> global variables DLLIMPORT in their corresponding header files to
> prevent unresolved linker errors by clients of libpostgres.a.
What's the point of --export-all then?
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