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Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | Hello Yaakov, | | To remove the -export-symbols option and make the DLL to export all | symbols (also the private)? Hmmm, I'm no friend of using .def files | at all, but I'm not sure if is the right thing to simply export all | symbols. | | The application authors should not use private symbols. If there is | need to use those functions and there are no public functions which do | the same thing, then they may go to the GTK folks and convince them | that the specific function should be made public instead of private. | | What do the GTK developers say about the private / public functions | issue, was there discussion on the GTK lists already? | | What do the application authors say? Simply "Rebuild your GTK if | these symbols are not available"?
In theory you're 100% correct, but in practice it appears otherwise. I admit that I have not investigated this issue myself, rather I'm trusting Hansom Young on what he said. If it's indeed true that the big linux distros don't "follow the rules", that's a pretty big precedent, isn't it?
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