Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] GCC Symbol Visibility

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] GCC Symbol Visibility
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-29 01:18:30

drivehappy wrote:
> I'm attempting to build the serialization library outside of the
> standard build mechanism for Boost. For the most part this works
> great, with the exception that the symbol visibility under GCC is not
> defined correctly - our compiler settings set visibility to "hidden".
>
> Snippets from boost/serialization/config.hpp:
>            #define BOOST_SERIALIZATION_DECL(T) __declspec(dllexport) T
> ...
>            #define BOOST_SERIALIZATION_DECL(T) __declspec(dllimport) T
>
> I believe there has been previous discussion on changing these to
> BOOST_SYMBOL_EXPORT and BOOST_SYMBOL_IMPORT respectively since the
> __declspec is MSVC specific
> (http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Questions-regarding-new-visibility-stuff-td2670688.html).
>
> Additionally a patch was suggested
> (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2114) that I believe at the
> time covered all of the boost libraries with the same changes. It
> doesn't appear to have gotten into Boost.Serialization (at least as of
> 1.51).
>
> If it would save time I could provide a patch specifically for
> Serialization.

add this information and suggested patch to the TRACK system

Robert Ramey

>
> Thanks.