more comfortable approach for exporting dbus functions on windows

[Ralf Habacker]

Ralf Habacker schrieb:
> Ralf Habacker schrieb:
> <snip>
>>
>>>> The appended patch adds such support for the public dbus api 
>>>> functions. The
>>>> internal symbols could be adressed in further patches.
>>>>      
>>> What change would need to be made to the internal symbols?
>>>    
>> to be clear - i used the term internal for dbus internal functions 
>> indicated by the _dbus prefix, which are also exported from dbus-1 
>> shared library.
>>
>> Symbols which are not exported do not need any decoration on windows, 
>> because this is the default. if gcc on unix has a switch to set the 
>> default symbol visibility to 'hidden', than there is also no 
>> decoration required for this case. Otherwise the above mentioned 
>> DBUS_NO_EXPORT could be used for this case.
>>
>> To export the dbus internal functions the following steps are required:
>>
>> 1. add DBUS_EXPORT to  _dbus_... function
>> 2. remove related symbolnames from xxx.def.in
>>
>> When all symbols are decorated the .def file creation and usage could 
>> be removed in the autotools and cmake build system.
> Appended is a related patch - it removes def file usage for the cmake 
> buildsystem too - please review
are there still any problems with this patch ?
>
> Ralf
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