Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-Id:	<199911121712.LAA27146@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu>
To:	"vincent penne" <vincent DOT penne AT freesbee DOT fr>
cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: Building C++ library DLL
In-Reply-To:	Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 05:56:29 +0100."
	<000701bf2cca$48c5c600$7b0681d4 AT ziggy>
Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:12:17 -0600
From:	Mumit Khan <khan AT thor DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>

"vincent penne" <vincent DOT penne AT freesbee DOT fr> writes:
> ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF2CD2.A9E3DBE0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Hi all,
> maybe it's not the correct list where to ask for since my problem is GCC =
> related, but I try anyway.
> 
> With Microst Visual C++ it is possible to write something like
> 
> class __declspec(dllexport) foo {
>     static int foo_var;
> 
>     void foo_function();
> }
> 
> This will export the function and the static variable without need to =
> put the __declspec(dllexport) on every line of the class definition.
> 
> When using the library, one can write
> 
> class __declspec(dllimport) foo {
>  ...
> 
> My question : Is it supposed to work with GCC too ? If not, are there =
> any plans to implement such a nice feature ? This make porting of C++ =
> library to windows a lot more easy, since there is a lot less __declspec =
> directive to put in the header files ...

It should work. Why not just try it out?

Regards,
Mumit


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com

- Raw text -