On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 17:44:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
As I said in the other thread, I _hate_ export. It's one of
Windows largest
misfeatures IMHO. It drives me nuts when I have to deal with it
in C++. The
fact that Linux exports everything is _fantastic_. It's so much
easier to deal
with. I'd _hate_ to see Linux or anything we do move in the
direction of what
Windows has done.
- Jonathan M Davis
Agreed. Ideally, there would be a compiler flag to export all
public symbols by default. Public is there for a reason, public
is default for a reason. Now forcing a bunch of clutter just to
add expor to everything, would defeat the purpose and is the
single largest reason I don't use DLLs.
