> Indeed: Gentoo Prefix[1] uses parity[2] as a wrapper around Microsoft tools,
Hmm, I was thinking about somebody using Microsoft tools directly, no Linux tools/distros/philisophy involved. Somebody did file a couple of bugs against libIDL and/or ORBit2 for building with MSVC. > AFAICT, to get this working, it is necessary to do the link step as C++, > where having global variables in shared libraries is possible. Hmm, it is possible in C, too, and works fine with MinGW even without any dllimport/dllexport decorations as long as it is just "simple" variables used in a "simple" way. (I.e. no initailisation of static variables with too complex expressions involving the addresses of imported variables, etc). But yeah, I guess with C++ one can easier use more complex initialisations that run actual code. The "runtime pseudo relocations" that the --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc switch refers to presumably are effectively something similar? --tml _______________________________________________ orbit-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orbit-list
