Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Is it still true that global variables exported from a dll must have a
> dllimport directive for applications?  AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL would
> perhaps indicate a package has addressed this issue (by whatever
> means) and is therefore dll safe.

While this is required by MSVC, to my knowledge, it is not required by
Cygwin or MinGW anymore since binutils takes care of it automatically.

Bob
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