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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:47:58 +0400
From: Maarten Boekhold <boekhold AT emirates DOT net DOT ae>
Subject: Re: Exporting const functions from DLL
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Hi all, sorry, never mind. My mistake... As you probably noticed, I was 
looking at the wrong function!

Maarten

Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into the following:
> 
> icons.h:
> const gchar *
> resolve_folder_icon(tree_entry_t * en);
> 
> icons.c:
> __declspec(dllexport)
> const gchar *resolve_folder_icon (tree_entry_t * en)
> {
> etc..
> }
> 
> Compile error:
> icons.c:562: error: external linkage required for symbol 'resolve_icon' 
> because of 'dllexport' attribute.
> make: *** [libxffm_basic_la-icons.lo] Error 1
> 
> I found a reference to a similar problem at:
>     http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00654.html
> 
> I tried removing the const, adding extern to the include file and all 
> possible combinations of that, but no luck...
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (cygwin special)
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DXBM2003 1.5.11(0.116/4/2) 2004-09-04 23:17 i686 unknown 
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> Does anybody know how to solve this?
> 
> Maarten
> 
> 
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