[cairo] [PATCH] building libcairo-2.dll on Linux

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 16:22 -0400, Hans Breuer wrote:
> On 16.04.2007 09:02, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Behdad Esfahbod writes:
> >  > BTW, don't we need
> >  > to define cairo_public to __declspec(dllexport) and
> >  > __declspec(dllimport) for win32?  I don't see any code for that.  Or is
> >  > that not needed because of cairo.def?
> > 
> If there would be a cairo.def it could replace the __declspec(dllexport)
> with one major drawback: the .def file would need to be different depending
> on the configuration (e.g. with or without PNG, freetype, etc.).
> 
> AFAIR this was the reason to not choose the .def file approach but go for
> the cairo_public define, but maybe I'm wrong. Read yourself in the
> following thread:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-September/005247.html

Yeah, I remember that the only reason we introduced cairo_public was
that too.  And like you say, lacking autotools, the cairo.def approach
is not that effective.

Should we switch over?  It's just a few lines.


> > Marking functions for export is unnecessary as cairo.def takes care of
> > listing them. 
> I thought cairo.def was not part of the distribution but looking at
> Makefile.am shows me I was wrong. The approach there still misses
> reconfiguration without auto* tools.
> Also at least the condition for cairo-pdf.h exports seems wrong. IIRC it
> does work without Freetype since quite some time.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Hans
> 
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