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Re: Where can I get Cygwin 20.1b?




At 09:50 AM 6/16/2000, Phil Edwards wrote:

>Carl Thompson <cet@carlthompson.net>:
> > Michael Nelson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I just double checked all of this, and it seems GCC is a bit more
> > > tricky. If you have 0 symbols marked with dllexport all public symbols
> > > get exported. If you have >0 symbols marked with dllexport, only they
> > > get exported.
> > > 
> > > I think this is where the mixup is.
> > > 
> > > What I miss on UNIX is the latter feature, the ability it to only
> > > export exactly these symbols.
> >
> > OK, I will grudgingly concede that Windows might be better in that one
> > little respect, then... ;-)
>
>I won't.  :-)  This feature is available on "Unix" but it isn't standardized.
>It depends heavily (AFAICT) on the platform and the linker.


And MS O/S - compiler - linker features in this area aren't standardized 
either so that's really not a mark against the UNIXes that do handle this 
in their own way!;-)





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