[cairo] cairomm .def file

Murray Cumming murrayc at murrayc.com
Mon Dec 8 06:38:46 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:44 +0100, Stefan Klug wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I hope this is the right place for cairomm questions.
> 
> I'm having a hard time compiling cairomm for winCE under MSVC (I'd be 
> happy doing it under a gcc build chain, but gcc and MSVC are C++ ABI 
> incompatible).
> Everything compiles, but I can't get it to generate an appropriate 
> import .lib.
> As cairomm doesn't use __declspec(dllexport), I need a .def file 
> containing all exports.
> But where do I get one?
> MSDN says DEF files are generated by hand, but there must be some magic 
> generating the DEF file for cairomm (as the files cairomm.def are 
> explicitely ignored in the git repository...)

CCing Armin Burgmeier who built cairomm (and gtkmm) on Windows with MSVC
++, among other compilers, and who created the MSVC++ project files that
are in cairomm's tarball and git. Hopefully he can comment.

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