X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49B948F2.6070403@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:40:02 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2 References: <49B90A2B.3050907@alice.it> <49B92D24.3000802@gmail.com> <49B93C71.50809@gmail.com> <49B93FEB.5030305@gmail.com> <49B94459.4070208@lysator.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <49B94459.4070208@lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Peter Rosin wrote: > Den 2009-03-12 18:01 skrev Dave Korn: >> Hmmm, I may have misunderstood that. Does -D_DLL mean something >> special to MSVC, does anyone know? > > When you compile with shared libc on MSVC (e.g. -MD), it defines _DLL > for you. Ah, thanks. So it's used for internal communication between compiler and linker in the MSVC toolchain. That does make it seem unlikely it should be needed here in a GNU build. And I assume that even an MSVC build should be using -MD rather than defining the macro directly? cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/