Re: CygWin woes

[Earnie Boyd]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > Magnus Therning wrote:
> >
> > >   int
> > >   foo(int bar)
> > >   {
> > >     return 42 * bar;
> > >   }
> >
> > FWIW, if you wish to export this function from the dll then you should 
> > prototype it as ``__declspec(dllexport) int foo (int);'' so that the 
> > linker doesn't have to guess.
>
>
> Disagree 100%.  The whole point of my work and that of others over the 
> last 2.5 years concerning auto-import in gcc, binutils, automake, 
> autoconf, and libtool was precisely so that -- on cygwin at least, if 
> not on mingw -- we can discard those damn declspec() atrocities.  PLEASE 
> don't encourage cygwin users to go back to the dark ages...

If you want to be portable between all the different vendors of win32 
build tools; then, you will do as I suggest.  What I suggest is the MS 
officially documented method.  So, I will suggest it as much as possible 
although I will now clarify upfront as to why.

Earnie.