Re: gir stability

[Dieter Verfaillie <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:12:08 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> maybe we could repurpose gtk.symbols to also list the key 
> introspection data.

Doing so will probably complicate building the .def files we need
to build shared libraries on win32:

- autoconficated build: Makefile.am's could be easily changed to cater
  for this extended use of .symbols files
- msvc build: project files are pretty limited in what can be done,
  currently we fire up the preprocessor and that's mostly it. Look
  for "GtkGenerateGtkDef" in build/win32/vs10/gtk+.props to see how
  it works exactly (vs9 does similar in gtk+.vsprops).
- nmake build: probably wouldn't pose big problems as it relies
  on the .def file to be in the source tarball. I wish somebody could
  apply the same msvc magic as described above so we could get rid of
  the ".def file needs to live in $(srcdir)" abomination, though...

mvg,
Dieter