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Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix example for all Win32 compiler
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix example for all Win32 compiler |
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Wed, 29 Dec 2021 11:51:20 +0100 |
Biswapriyo Nath wrote:
> AFAIK, HAVE_VISIBILITY is specific to autotools
> and it is not defined by the compiler itself.
Sure. But the piece of documentation we're talking about is in the
Gnulib manual, and Gnulib assumes Autoconf.
> gcc documentation also suggests to use _WIN32[1].
>
> [1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
It also suggests to use __declspec on Cygwin. Which is equally useless,
since on Cygwin HAVE_VISIBILITY=1 as well, and the Cygwin linker has
magic that makes __declspec mostly useless.
Bruno