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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] questions about visibility/dlls under mingw
From: Gavin Lambert (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-20 03:52:10

On 20/11/2018 08:07, John Maddock wrote:
>> BOOST_SYMBOL_IMPORT is not defined to be 
>> __attribute__((__dllimport__)) under MINGW and that is the source of 
>> the problem. 
> 
> That's not true, gcc.hpp has:
> 
> #Â Â Â  define BOOST_SYMBOL_EXPORT __attribute__((__dllexport__))
> #Â Â Â  define BOOST_SYMBOL_IMPORT __attribute__((__dllimport__))
> 
> when _Win32 is defined.

Only for GCC >= 4.0 though.  Perhaps they have an older gcc?