Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm-2.4 on MSVC

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

Rene Jensen wrote:
> A few weeks ago I set out to reach a similar goal, but to my shame the 
> attempt petered. The reason was that fixing the linking problems 
> required a dllimport/dllexport to be added in front of all class 
> declarations (in the .hg and .ccg files to keep those changes), plus 
> some other places, namely statically declared functions in .ccg files 
> and all global objects, which should keep their 'extern' specifier in 
> their declaration. Well, I tried to disentangle the m4 macro files but 
> didn't have enough time to pursue.
>
> So Tim, I would gladly join up, but unless someone explains exactly what 
> should be added to which m4 files, I'm afraid we are beyond a simple 
> configuration issue. We could make a lot of changes to the post-m4 .h 
> and .cc files but those changes would be lost at next version. (I tried 
> to do that by the way, and I think I got it to link cleanly. However 
> there were still some issues probably revolving around some 
> msvc-template stuff I didn't have the energy to investigate upon).

I don't have all the answers on this, but I intend to try and figure it 
out.  We'll see how far I get ;)  FWIW, glibmm already had the correct 
dllexport/dllimport macros defined, perhaps somebody got that far and quit?

> P.S.: Those files you made, they are not tar.gz files, just tar.

Doh!  Thanks for the heads-up.

Cheers,
Tim