[Xcb] Status of XCB and howto begin

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Vincent Torri wrote:

>> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:51:35PM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
>>> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Barton C Massey wrote:
>>>> With no offense intended for Josh, Jamey's way is the right
>>>> way, as it is not GCC-dependent, I think?
>>> you have to add some __attribute__, so it's gcc dependant, I think
>> I think adding the visibility #pragma to xcbint.h is better: it's a tiny
>> patch, then, and doesn't require us to do anything special if we change
>> the functions in xcbint.h later.
> 
> in the gcc page that talks about the visibility support, it's mentioned
> that pragma should not be used.
> Also, the modifications are just adding a defined variable in front of a
> function. Not a big deal.

Mesa already implements visibility portably for several
compilers.  Maybe you could just copy the idea from there.

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

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