[Xcb] Status of XCB and howto begin

[Alan Coopersmith]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Mesa already implements visibility portably for several
> compilers.  Maybe you could just copy the idea from there.

Or just use the visibility defines already included in <X11/Xfuncproto.h>
in Xorg 6.9 and later.

> A few years ago, I used the very same approach for Windows DLLs
> and it works fine with MSVC.  I've also posted a patch to hide
> private functions for libX11, which is not yet in CVS.  You can
> find it here:
> 
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2607

It probably never will be applied to Xorg CVS in it's current form,
since it adds a second set of visibility defines, and only works with
the now-frozen monolithic/imake tree, not the current modular/autotools
tree.   libX11 is also a very risky place to take away defined symbols,
since there are so many existing applications and so much hackery that
has occured in the past.

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