Re: [Boost-users] questions about visibility/dlls under mingw

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] questions about visibility/dlls under mingw
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-15 15:46:05

On 11/15/18 3:57 AM, John Maddock via Boost-users wrote:
> 
>On 15/11/2018 00:04, Robert Ramey via Boost-users wrote:
>> MINGW is the platform which runs gcc compilers under winsoze.
>>
d2(){}
>  
> So that all looks OK.  But,
> 
> * If I examine the object files with nm, I see symbols for 
> polymorphic_derived2 *without* the leading "__imp_" - ie regular 
> non-exported symbols.
> 
> 
> At this point I'm stumped.  Anyone else?

Your analysis is much better than my own - Thanks for investing time for 
this.

It looks like the MING compiler is not actually processing the "export" 
attribute.  I guess we'll just have to accept it as something we just 
can't fix.

> 
> John.

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