Re: [ft-devel] FreeType DLL support

[Martin Gieseking]

Am 11.01.2018 um 21:22 schrieb Alexei Podtelezhnikov:
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> Basically, we need to hide 
> those dllimport/dllexport attributes from anything but DLL context. So I 
> suggested FT2_LINK_DLL compile-time macro   because I like it to scream 
> DLL and I did not like other ideas from
> http://geoffair.net/ms/declspec.htm.
>
> Here the proposal:
>
>   #ifdef _MSC_VER
>   #if defined( FT2_BUILD_LIBARY ) && defined( _DLL )
>   #define FT_EXPORT( x )  __declspec( dllexport )  x
>   #elif defined( FT2_LINK_DLL )
>   #define FT_EXPORT( x )  __declspec( dllimport )  x
>   #endif
>   #endif
>
>  From my reading, FT2_LINK_DLL is actually optional but would optimize 
> the library calls.

I would also suggest to replace
  #ifdef _MSC_VER
with
  #ifdef _WIN32
in order to support other Windows compilers too.

Instead of _DLL it might be better to use DLL_EXPORT because it's 
automatically defined when configuring the build of a shared library on 
Windows with MinGW or Cygwin.

Martin