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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


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