[HarfBuzz] dll build

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-10-01 02:51 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 1/10/13 19:26, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> On 13-10-01 08:03 AM, Eduardo Castineyra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I build hb as a dll, it does not export any symbol. I had to the project
>>> to add a .def file I stole from the hb-shape win32 compiled example. But I
>>> don't know what the proper way to get the symbols to be exported is.
>>
>> *Someone* needs to create the .def file.  I don't know how people do it on
>> Windows, but the autotools-based build system knows how to build it, so
>> lifting it from the win32 bundle is indeed the easiest way I guess.
> 
> AIUI, an alternative would be to annotate the public symbols in the source
> with something like HB_PUBLIC_API, which would be #defined to be
> "__declspec(dllexport)" when building a DLL on Windows.

If that means adding one token before each function in the public header files
I'm totally fine with that.


>>> These are the options I used to compile HB:
>>>
>>> WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;_USRDLL;HARFBUZZ_EXPORTS;HAVE_OT;HAVE_UCDN
>>>
>>> Regards!
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