Re: [ros-dev] Autogenerating compiler specific .def files

[Aleksey Bragin]

Hi,
why can't .spec be used for this purpose (extended to support msvc  
files generation)?
They are going to stay anyway for wine-shared modules.


With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.


On Nov 24, 2007, at 3:04 AM, Marc Piulachs wrote:

>   Hi All,
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>  I have lately seen a big effort to make more modules compilable  
>  under Visual C , one of our current problems when building dlls is  
>  that our .def files are mingw/gcc specific not directly compatible  
>  with msvc or any other future compiler we may support. Currently we  
>  are using not very elegant solutions to archive compatibility with  
>  msvc like stripping some information from mingw def files. As Alex  
>  suggested I think it’s a good idea to move that information to  
>  rbuild files and let rbuild generate full compatible compiler def  
>  files in the intermediate folder. The advantages are obvious.
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>  As I have little experience with mingw def files I would like to  
>  request some help from other developers to evaluate/validate my  
>  proposal.
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>  From my research on the ros codebase I have found that possible  
>  variations: