In article <20000208202001.A487@beelzebub>, Greg Ward <gward@python.net> writes ...
A question for the crowd (especially Windows extension developers) before I give in: have you ever needed to define a .def file to link your extensions? Or, more bluntly, is Thomas correct, that a COM-aware extension might need to export more symbols than 'initfoo'? No offense Thomas, I just want to make sure that this ugly hack really is needed.
Greg
It may be convenient to just provide a list of the exported symbols. The _numpy extension has quite a few things it wants to export. A disadavantage is that adding a new exportable requires editing two files. The .def may get forgotten. It won't matter till it's acutally needed. In the _numpy case it may be sometime before the C api actually gets used. -- Robin Becker