[cairo] cairo compiles on win32 (cygwin)

[Evan Martin]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:11:52AM -0500, Richard Worth wrote:
> Two main fixes
> 1) I removed the 'extern ' and ' __external_linkage' (guarded 
> win32/cygwin macro which added __declspec(dllexport) or 
> __declspec(dllimport)) from function declarations in cairo.h and 
> pixman.h. From what I can tell, these used to be necessary for building 
> shared libraries for win32, but are no longer.

I'm hardly a win32 expert, but the last time I tried building a library
for win32 I found you either needed a .def file at link time, or some
magic flags like dllexport, for your dlls to have any public functions.

Perhaps it's only unnecessary with cygwin / mingw?

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