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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2
Peter Rosin wrote:
> Den 2009-03-12 18:01 skrev Dave Korn:
>> Hmmm, I may have misunderstood that. Does -D_DLL mean something
>> special to MSVC, does anyone know?
>
> When you compile with shared libc on MSVC (e.g. -MD), it defines _DLL
> for you.
Ah, thanks. So it's used for internal communication between compiler and
linker in the MSVC toolchain. That does make it seem unlikely it should be
needed here in a GNU build. And I assume that even an MSVC build should be
using -MD rather than defining the macro directly?
cheers,
DaveK
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