On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:29:35PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:34:51AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:23:15AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > [This is just a FYI ...] > > > > > > Upstream binutils or gcc changed the default way that symbols are > > > exported for cross-compiled (Fedora MinGW) DLLs. Previously all > > > symbols were exported. Now they are only exported if they are > > > explicitly listed in a *.def file. > > > > > > There are two ways that libvirt could be changed to do the right > > > thing here. > > > > > Or create a *.def file. It looks like: > > > > > > LIBRARY libvirt.dll > > > DESCRIPTION "libvirt foo blah" > > > EXPORTS > > > <<list of symbol names, one per line>> > > > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d91k01sh%28VS.80%29.aspx > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/28d6s79h%28VS.80%29.aspx > > > > > > The LIBRARY and DESCRIPTION lines are optional. > > > > This method sounds appealing to me - we could likely auto-generate > > this file from the master src/libvirt_public.syms file we already > > have for Linux/Solaris > > yup, Rich how urgent is that ? maybe we should try to fix this for > 0.7.3 (I'm also wondering why I didn't see this for libxml2/libxslt) Erik can probably answer this more accurately, but I think it's only a concern for Fedora 13. The problem is that if you don't do anything then you'll end up silently building DLLs that don't work. I hit that problem today with mingw32-libpng :-( Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list