[LLVMdev] LLVM Shared DLL not supported reason

[Reid Kleckner]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Alan Garny <agarny at hellix.com> wrote:

> Independently of the technical details, etc., I personally wish there was
> an
> official way to have an LLVM DLL. I need it for my project and the way I
> currently do it is that I import/export every single class/function that I
> need. This is really not ideal since I need to 'patch' LLVM every time a
> new
> release is out. Also, if I need to use an extra class/function, then I need
> to rebuild LLVM, etc. So, yes, I would for one certainly welcome an
> official
> way to get an LLVM DLL...
>

Personally, I would also like an LLVM DSO and a Clang DSO that uses
explicit export annotations in the source code.

It's been proposed before, and objections were raised. It might be worth
another try, though.
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