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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:35:11 -0400
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	Mark Paulus <commpg AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [ANN] dllhelpers-0.2.8 available
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Mark Paulus wrote:
> 
> I have a question about the examples.  In the Makefile
> (for c_and_c++, and c++ at least), there is a reference in
> building the objs to the variable DLL_CFLAGS.  However,
> this does not look like it ever gets set, nor does it appear to
> have a value during make execution.
> 
> My question is, is this merely a holdover from some previous
> versions that got dropped, but the comments never got
> removed, or does this variable need to have a value,
> and if so, under what conditions?

Yes to  all.  It is a holdover from earlier, pre-auto-import versions of
dllhelpers, but I left it there (empty) to make the point that you do
NOT need special compile-time CFLAGS to build DLLs anymore.  They *used*
to be necessary, but no longer are.

--Chuck

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