[LLVMdev] Shared library support of llvm

[João Matos]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Morten Ofstad <morten at hue.no> wrote:

> Actually, adding a LLVM_EXPORT macro would be positive for other
> environments, because you can then build LLVM
> as a shared library with -fvisibility=hidden and use LLVM_EXPORT to only
> make public symbols visible. There are several
> advantages to this, as noted here:
>

I agree, this would be useful even for other environments to solve the
bloat that can happen by exporting all the symbols.

Adding targeted dllexport annotations won't work because non-Windows
developers (the majority) shouldn't be burdened with keeping them up
to date.

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:

> Adding targeted dllexport annotations won't work because non-Windows
> developers (the majority) shouldn't be burdened with keeping them up
> to date.
>

IMHO it's not that big of a burden, we have build bots that can signal
whatever problems come up. And it would also be useful for other platforms.

-- 
João Matos
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