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Re: [ANN] dllhelpers-0.2.8 available
- To: Mark Paulus <commpg at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ANN] dllhelpers-0.2.8 available
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:35:11 -0400
- CC: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <200109202013.f8KKDRiw000247@mail.ee.gatech.edu>
Mark Paulus wrote:
>
> I have a question about the examples. In the Makefile
> (for c_and_c++, and c++ at least), there is a reference in
> building the objs to the variable DLL_CFLAGS. However,
> this does not look like it ever gets set, nor does it appear to
> have a value during make execution.
>
> My question is, is this merely a holdover from some previous
> versions that got dropped, but the comments never got
> removed, or does this variable need to have a value,
> and if so, under what conditions?
Yes to all. It is a holdover from earlier, pre-auto-import versions of
dllhelpers, but I left it there (empty) to make the point that you do
NOT need special compile-time CFLAGS to build DLLs anymore. They *used*
to be necessary, but no longer are.
--Chuck
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