How to find out how symbols are exported

[Suresh Govindachar]

  The Make_ming.mak file for gvim has the lines:

  ifdef PERL
  ifeq (no, $(DYNAMIC_PERL))
  LIB += -lperl$(PERL_VER)
  endif
  endif

  So when building gvim with dynamic support for perl:

  1) For older versions of ActivePerl, the build is 
     successful without any explicit -lperl58 

     The linker somehow knows that perl58 related 
     symbols that it cannot resolve will be resolved
     at runtime via perl58.dll

  2) For the latest ActivePerl (build 822), when build 
     is done without adding -lperl58 

     The linker somehow knows -- for almost all -- the 
     perl58 related symbols that it cannot resolve, they
     will be resolved at runtime via perl58.dll

     For some reason, the linker demands that two   
     particular symbols Perl_sv_2iv_flags and 
     Perl_newXS_flags be resolved at link time via 
     an explicit addition of -lperl58

  So ActiveState is "exporting" Perl_sv_2iv_flags and
  Perl_newXS_flags in a way that is different from the
  way they export other symbols.

  Is it possible to examine perl58.dll and/or perl58.lib
  to figure out what's wrong in the way Perl_sv_2iv_flags
  and Perl_newXS_flags are being exported?

  Thanks,

  --Suresh



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