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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2021-10-14 09:06:50 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2021-10-14 09:06:50 +0200
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parentc08bf939d0d9ee475f5553135ad4dbe3e5684f3b (diff)
Move symbol exporting documentation from NEWS to manual
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@@ -119,33 +119,9 @@ Version 0.14.0
* Support for automatic DLL symbol exporting.
- The bin.def module (automatically loaded by the c and cxx modules for the
- *-win32-msvc targets) provides a rule for generating symbol-exporting .def
- files. This allows automatically exporting all symbols for all the Windows
- targets/compilers using the following setup (showing for cxx in this
- example):
-
- lib{foo}: libul{foo}: {hxx cxx}{**} ...
-
- lib{foo}: def{foo}: include = ($cxx.target.system == 'win32-msvc')
- def{foo}: libul{foo}
-
- if ($cxx.target.system == 'mingw32')
- cxx.loptions += -Wl,--export-all-symbols
-
- That is, we use the .def file generation for MSVC (including when building
- with Clang) and the built-in support (--export-all-symbols) for MinGW.
-
- Note that it is also possible to use the .def file generation for MinGW.
- In this case we need to explicitly load the bin.def module (which should
- be done after loading c or cxx) and can use the following setup:
-
- using bin.def # In root.build after loading c/cxx.
-
- lib{foo}: libul{foo}: {hxx cxx}{**} ...
-
- lib{foo}: def{foo}: include = ($cxx.target.class == 'windows')
- def{foo}: libul{foo}
+ It is now possible to automatically generate a .def file that exports all
+ symbols from a Windows DLL. See "Automatic DLL Symbol Exporting" in the
+ manual for details.
* Initial Emscripten compiler support.