Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm-2.4 on MSVC

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

Cedric Gustin wrote:
> Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>
> > I pulled the mico source and looked into win32def, but I don't think 
> > it's doing what you think - it's generating a def file based on the 
> > publicly-exported symbols in an existing DLL.  In our case, we need to 
> > specify what those symbols should be, which is where 
> > dllexport/dllimport come in.
>
>
> No, win32def does precisely take care of generating a def file with all 
> symbols exported to the DLL. No need for dllexport/dllimport stuff.
>
> Actually, the mico project recently switched from win32def to a new tool 
> called gendef. For an example, either try to compile mico (nmake -f 
> Makefile.win32) or grab this simple example I created yesterday.
>
> http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/binaries/gendef.zip
>
> In the MSVC solution file, you'll find three projects. gendef creates 
> the gendef executable, build_dll builds a simple dll, exporting the 
> symbols with gendef (see the prelink rule in the project properties), 
> and test_dll uses this dll in a simple example.

I stand corrected - using gendef with glibmm works like a charm.  I am
updating the gtkmm solution to use it as well, will post updated
solutions once I've tested everything.

Cheers,
Tim