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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:16:48 -0500
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In-reply-to: <20010215121332.H3899@redhat.com> (message from Christopher
	Faylor on Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:32 -0500)
Subject: Re: Exporting symbols from a .exe
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> With MSVC you don't have to do anything special.  If I try --shared, the
> executable just doesn't work.

Right, because you just created a dll ;-)

What I meant is that if you use the built-in mechanism to export
symbols, rather than dlltool, I suspect that ld will simply not bother
to check for symbols to export if you're not building a dll.