[libvirt] Fedora MinGW - need for *.def files

[Erik van Pienbroek]

Op maandag 16-11-2009 om 13:03 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Richard
W.M. Jones:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:29:35PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:34:51AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > This method sounds appealing to me - we could likely auto-generate
> > > this file from the master src/libvirt_public.syms file we already
> > > have for Linux/Solaris
> > 
> >   yup, Rich how urgent is that ? maybe we should try to fix this for
> > 0.7.3 (I'm also wondering why I didn't see this for libxml2/libxslt)
> 
> Erik can probably answer this more accurately, but I think it's
> only a concern for Fedora 13.
> 
> The problem is that if you don't do anything then you'll end up
> silently building DLLs that don't work.  I hit that problem today with
> mingw32-libpng :-(
> 
> Rich.

Hi,

Fedora 12 already contains the gcc and binutils which have this
behaviour. A few weeks ago I ran into this issue with the
mingw32-libsoup DLL which didn't contain any exported symbols anymore
after an upgrade (a bug for that was already filed at [1]).

I don't know what the situation is for libxml2/libxslt as the build logs
aren't available anymore in Koji and I didn't get to do a local build
here.

BTW, the .def files are also used on Mac OS X environments (though I had
issues were libtool didn't like the 'EXPORTS' line in the .def file). 

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek


[1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595176