Hi Boris, > Do you know if in this case all symbols will be exported (as is done > in Xerces-C++ right now) or import/export declarations should be > used?
MINGW supports __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec(dllimport) or by default, exports all symbols when -shared is used. If you export all symbols, MINGW's gcc allows you to link directly to the built DLL and will "auto-import" the symbols. If you use explicit exports/imports you can have g++ create an import library when linking. A highly simplified command line would then look like this: (-mthreads includes multi-thread support, -shared says we're building a DLL) g++ -mthreads -shared $(LIBDIRS) $(LIBS) $(OBJECTS) -o libblah.dll -Wl,--out-implib,libblah.a > Also, I wonder why Xerces-C++ exports all symbols on Mingw even if > the appropriate declarations are present (see the Mingw sections in > util/Compilers/GCCDefs.hpp). I can't find that file in the sources I checked out? - Dave
