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Re: Building C++ library DLL


"vincent penne" <vincent.penne@freesbee.fr> writes:
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> Hi all,
> maybe it's not the correct list where to ask for since my problem is GCC =
> related, but I try anyway.
> 
> With Microst Visual C++ it is possible to write something like
> 
> class __declspec(dllexport) foo {
>     static int foo_var;
> 
>     void foo_function();
> }
> 
> This will export the function and the static variable without need to =
> put the __declspec(dllexport) on every line of the class definition.
> 
> When using the library, one can write
> 
> class __declspec(dllimport) foo {
>  ...
> 
> My question : Is it supposed to work with GCC too ? If not, are there =
> any plans to implement such a nice feature ? This make porting of C++ =
> library to windows a lot more easy, since there is a lot less __declspec =
> directive to put in the header files ...

It should work. Why not just try it out?

Regards,
Mumit


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